Jonas Sicking ha scritto:
I see the Element interface no more contains methods to handle Attr
nodes: since those are described as not being child nodes of an
Element, in W3C specifications, there will be any other way to
handle attributes as nodes, the 'nature' of Attr nodes is going to
change, or is there a too little use (and/or support) of them, such
that the Attr interface might be quite close to its 'end of life'?
I'm not sure what to do with attributes. I'd like to drop support for
attribute nodes (being moved around, etc), if possible, but keep the
.attributes list and be able to use .value etc on each attribute.
Oooh, this is an interesting idea. It'd be great if we could make
attributes not be nodes but rather some other type of object.
Ideally I'd like for them to not exist at all, and have people just
use getAttribute(NS) instead. I've never thought that their usefulness
outweighed their complexity.
/ Jonas
Effectively, Attrs are nodes, but aren't used as 'normal' nodes; that's
complex. Perhaps they might have been defined as not inheriting from
Node since their introduction. If creating two new interfaces, one
replacing Attrs (perhaps called Attr as well, but not inheriting from
Node), the other to list attributes (AttributeCollection?), doesn't rise
any issue on backward compatibility, or it solves more problems than it
may create, that's not a bad idea. :-)
For sure, getting/setting an attribute as a property of an element,
through getter/setter methods taking and returning strings is easier and
perhaps the best choice in most cases, but there might be use cases
where the possibility to access an element's attributes as a list is
worth it, so, perhaps, should the drop of Attr be filed for a deep
analysis and a possible actuation in a successive version of Web DOM
Core (maybe modifying the Attr interface in the current)?
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