Re: DOMStringList from Philippe Le Hegaret on 2004-04-07 (www-dom@w3.org from April to June 2004)

From: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:44:07 -0400
To: danielglazman@easyconnect.fr
Cc: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1081356247.1068.45.camel@chacal>

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 06:13, danielglazman@easyconnect.fr wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> Could someone explain me why DOMStringList interface has no appendString() or
> insertString() method? Without that, DOMStringList is useful only as a method's
> return value and can't really be built to serve as a parameter.

DOMStringList was designed to fulfill the needs of
DOMConfiguration.parameternames and NodeEditVal.enumeratedValues. We had
no reason to add appendString or insertString since the attributes are
readonly.

Philippe

Received on Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:45:39 UTC