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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:53:29 -0500
David Megginson wrote:
>
> It's hard to guess what the original motivation was, and I have never
> been a member of the DOM WG (and joined the IG fairly recently), but I
> do think that it makes some sense: after all, the DOM will often be an
> adapter interface to an entirely different structure, like a set of
> database tables, and in such a contexts, createDocument might not make
> sense at all.
In the same situation createNode could cause a problem. Or setAttribute.
Etc. I don't buy that argument.
> Now, that said, it would be possible to have
> createDocument simply throw an exception when it's inappropriate.
That's the only reasonable way to handle writability.
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