- From: James Bentley <James.Bentley@guideworkstv.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:50:28 -0700
- To: 'Robin Berjon' <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Cc: "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
Would it make sense to move getElementById to SVGDocument then? -----Original Message----- From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@expway.fr] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:49 AM To: James Bentley Cc: 'www-svg@w3.org' Subject: 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
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