RE: Should all of the unimplemented DOM functions throw exceptions?

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Hi Brian,

We already have a lazy implementation for that, but I worry about bloating
the size of elements if we decide to add it, since it means 4 or 8 extra
bytes per Element for an interface we don't use internally.  Is it
something you can layer on top of our implementation, or is that too
awkward?

Dave



                                                                                       
                                                          
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> Actually, I would expect that one to be implemented, eventually... But
I
> agree that deliberately unsupported/deferred functions should probably
> fail in a diagnostically meaningful manner.

A very useful implementation for me would be
XalanSourceTreeElement::getChildNodes.

If I wrote a lazy implementation for that method and an implementation
for XalanNodeList (i.e. XalanSourceTreeNodeList), would accepting a
patch be considered before the release of Xalan 1.5? I could probably
implement it in the next day or so.

Cheers,
Brian