I'm not opposed to item taking an unsigned value -- I think that's fine. But it makes no sense for getLength() to return an int when item() takes an unsigned long. If something can have at most INT_MAX items, why allow ULONG_MAX when requesting an item?
I'm also concerned with changes like this going in without any discussion. Especially when they have the potential to break users' code -- which they did. That said, I may have missed that particular discussion. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/26/2000 07:32:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus) Subject: Re: *::item() and *::getLength() I don't know why those changes exactly were made, but I agree with them. The C++ parser consistently uses unsigned values if unsigned is what is being modelled. So he may have changed them in order to avoid having to cast so much in and out? He's in a multi-day W3C meeting, but hopefully he can respond when its over. ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley [EMAIL PROTECTED] David_N_Bertoni@lotus.com on 01/26/2000 03:24:28 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: *::item() and *::getLength() In the C++ DOM APIs. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/26/2000 05:25:40 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: David N Bertoni/CAM/Lotus) Subject: Re: *::item() and *::getLength() In the Java or C++ parser, and which APIs are we talking about exactly, DOM or SAX or what? ---------------------------------------- Dean Roddey Software Weenie IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley [EMAIL PROTECTED] David_N_Bertoni@lotus.com on 01/26/2000 02:11:38 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: *::item() and *::getLength() Maybe I missed the email that explained this, but why did the formal parameter of the various item() functions change from int to unsigned long? This (silently) broke a bunch of the Xalan code. Given that it _was_ changed, why wasn't getLength() changed to return an unsigned long? It seems inconsistent. Dave
