- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:45:55 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
This is correct. If you have any input on how to clarify the spec,
please, let us know! :-)
Thanks.
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Arnaud Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.
Andrew Clover wrote:
> "Vadim O. Ustiansky" <ustiansk@sai.msu.ru> wrote:
>
>
>>I am new to DOM and after reading the specification of
>>replaceWholeText method I have several questions. I suspect
>>them to be caused by my poor English
>
>
> I don't know, I found some of the wording of the wholeText stuff a little
> hairy too!
>
> I can't speak for the Editors, but this is my understanding of
> replaceWholeText and how I have implemented it in pxdom.
>
>
>> 1) What is null when the replacement text is empty?
>> Is it method's return value or returned node's text
>> content that is null?
>
>
> The return value. If the whole text is replaced by no text, there will
> be no Text node left to return, which is why we get null.
>
>
>> 2) Suppose I have three logically-adjacent text nodes
>> (N1, N2, N3). Let N2 be readonly and the others are
>> not readonly. If I call replaceWholeText('some text') on
>> N2 what result should I expect?
>
>
> N4, containing text 'some text'. N1, N2 and N3 will be removed from the
> document. In N2's case its parent EntityReference will be removed instead
> of N2 itself (assuming that is the reason for N2 being readonly).
>
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