- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:46:10 -0400
- To: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
When XPath ran into similar issues -- specifically, when they wanted to consider an element the parent of its attributes, despite their not being children -- the DOM's response was that, while we were willing to given them an ownerElement attribute on Attrs so this navigation was possible, we were not willing to accept and implement their definition of parent; it was their responsibility to write their implementation of XPath's parent operation so that when run over a DOM it Did The Right Thing. Frankly, I think the response to SVG's request should be similar. There's nothing wrong with a firstNonTextChild operation being provided by the SVG abstract data model. But I don't see any strong reason it has to be a property of the DOM Node, rather than an operation provided by SVG which may be applied to a DOM Node. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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