- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:36:00 -0500
- To: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Erik Dahlström wrote: > The text "when the contextDoc parameter is specified the processing must > be equivalent to applying the following steps" does suggest that since > importNode is used, an equivalent solution would have to throw > exceptions for the same reasons importNode does. But I guess one could > make other interpretations too, so what do you suggest? I don't have any suggestions, other than suggesting that the text be written in such a way that there is no "interpretation" involved, with the correct behavior clearly spelled out. > One way would be to remove the exceptions by wrapping the call to > importNode in a try-catch statement. Would that be better? I really don't care as long as the whole thing is consistent. I have no idea what use cases you're trying to address and whether those would be better addressed by silently returning null instead of throwing, etc. -Boris
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