- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:55:59 -0500
- To: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
>>> Is there any code anywhere that depends on Xerces raising an exception? >> I don't know. >IMHO this should be an important part of the decision here. :-) Xerces is just an illustrative case. We can't contact every possible Xerces user; we can't contact everyone who has ever implemented a DOM. If they met the spec as it was written, they're compliant, even if the way they met it isn't the way you'd prefer. Some things really were left as quality-of-implementation and flexibility-for-performance-tuning issues. So what you're proposing here is an erratum against DOM Level 1. Errata have a pretty high activation energy barrier to jump over or tunnel through before they can be approved; "it might be nice" or "we would have done it that way if we'd thought of it" generally don't do it. I think this one's going to fall into the latter category, but good luck... ______________________________________ 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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