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David Megginson wrote: > > It's hard to guess what the original motivation was, and I have never > been a member of the DOM WG (and joined the IG fairly recently), but I > do think that it makes some sense: after all, the DOM will often be an > adapter interface to an entirely different structure, like a set of > database tables, and in such a contexts, createDocument might not make > sense at all. In the same situation createNode could cause a problem. Or setAttribute. Etc. I don't buy that argument. > Now, that said, it would be possible to have > createDocument simply throw an exception when it's inappropriate. That's the only reasonable way to handle writability. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "The Excursion [Sport Utility Vehicle] is so large that it will come equipped with adjustable pedals to fit smaller drivers and sensor devices that warn the driver when he or she is about to back into a Toyota or some other object." -- Dallas Morning News xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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