Hi Michael - Doug agreed to respond to this e-mail so expect a reply/
proposal from him RSN.
-Regards, Art Barstow
On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:02 AM, ext Michael Glavassevich wrote:
Hi WG,
The DOM Core specification and other DOM modules define feature
strings [1] which applications can query to check whether or not a
specific DOM module is supported by a DOMImplementation. For
example, DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range [2] says: "A DOM
application may use the hasFeature(feature, version) method of the
DOMImplementation interface with parameter values "Traversal" and
"2.0" (respectively) to determine whether or not this module is
supported by the implementation." These feature strings are also
useful for selecting a DOMImplementation which supports a specific
set of features through the methods provided by
DOMImplementationRegistry [3].
After reading the spec it doesn't seem like Element Traversal has
such a string defined for it, so applications would have no
standard way for selecting a DOMImplementation which supports
Element Traversal or determining whether the DOMImplementation
instance they already have supports it. Is there a reason a feature
string was omitted from the spec? An oversight, perhaps? Can this
be added to the errata?
Thanks.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/
core.html#DOMFeatures
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-
Range-20001113/traversal.html#Traversal-overview
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/
core.html#Bootstrap
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
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