- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:09:45 +0100
- To: Thomas DeWeese <Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Thomas DeWeese wrote: > Robin Berjon wrote: >> If it were just this method I would agree (or I wouldn't mind) but the >> whole SVG DOM could imho do with some heavy-duty surgery. > > Then do it in a version of the spec that doesn't try to be > "upward compatible". Deprecation doesn't break compatibility! The sooner it's deprecated, the sooner it can be removed. > BTW when I looked at the implementation in > Batik I noticed a feature of this method, it allows for > searching of disconnected subtrees (which could have duplicate > id's, since they aren't in the document). That would appear to be a good rationale for having this method on DocumentFragment, not on SVGSVGElement :) -- Robin Berjon Research Scientist Expway, http://expway.com/
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