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

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Hi Brian,

Yes, for small documents it's not a problem, but for large markup-heavy
documents, it's adds up really fast.  If you can layer it, that would be
great.  We could also make that something controlled by a #define, so if
that would help you, it's OK with me.

Dave



                                                                                       
                                                        
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> We already have a lazy implementation for that,

Ah, I see what XalanNodeListSurrogate does now.

> 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.

Added 10% to the size doesn't seem important to me but I don't work with
huge source documents.

> Is it something you can layer on top of our implementation, or is that

> too awkward?

I can layer it on top of Xalan. It's a bit of a hassle but not a huge
one.

Cheers,
Brian