Re: 1.2 uDOM

James Bentley wrote:
> For DOM::Document, shouldn't getElementById throw a DOMException (with code
> of NOT_FOUND_ERR)?

No, not finding an ID is nothing exceptional, it just returns null.

> Also, since Document has the method getElementById, shouldn't DOM::Element
> have the DOMString id attribute - not SVGElement?

The notion of a single ID attribute for all of XML didn't exist when the 
DOM came to be, and therefore we can currently only guarantee to know 
about SVG ones.

-- 
Robin Berjon

Received on Wednesday, 8 December 2004 17:50:00 UTC