- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 14:44:36 +0900
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Dearest Björn,
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> From http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20050413/svgudom.html it
> seems the draft is unclear how the various trait access operations will
> behave when syntactically invalid parameters are passed, e.g.
>
> getTrait("+")
>
> does not appear to raise an exception. Please change the draft such that
> such illegal parameters raise an exception, e.g. a INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
> DOMException.
For any unknown trait name, the implementation will throw a DOMException
with code NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR. Since there is no "+" trait, an exception
will be thrown for your case. Differentiating between various types of
non-existent traits incurs higher cost for implementations with no
obvious gain.
--
Robin Berjon
Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Thursday, 19 May 2005 05:44:36 UTC