- From: Cameron McCormack <cam-www-dom@aka.mcc.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:43:31 +1000
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Hi Joe.
Joe Kesselman (yes, the address is real):
> I can't seem to find an authoritative definition of the value returned
> by Node.compareDocumentPosition. "Returns how the node is positioned
> relatively to the reference node". I believe we intended this to be a
> Fortran-style tristate comparison (<0, 0, >0), but that isn't nailed
> down, nor does this state explicitly whether <0 means this node is
> before other or other is before this.
I think the section describing the DocumentPosition values explains the
return value:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#DocumentPosition
Though the prose for Node.compareDocumentPosition doesn't actually
refer to that.
Cameron
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