- From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:38:20 -0000
- To: "'Karandikar, Shailesh'" <Shailesh.Karandikar@dendrite.com>
- Cc: "'www-forms@w3.org'" <www-forms@w3.org>
> One concern with making the instance point directly to the current > document, > rather than a seperate instance/clone of the same one is that the > processor > might change portions of the document for various reasons (E.g. attaching > additional attributes to form controls, decorating instance data nodes, > etc.) for the ease of processing. All such changes would be 'exposed' > unintentionally. Also Some processors make structural changes to the > document (E.g. inserting new bind elements). Hence the need for a publicly defined interface - my argument for a DOM spec. You can do what you want internally, but you have to honour the public declarations. Mark
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