- 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. -- 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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