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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:04:06 -0400
Leigh Dodds wrote:
> Erm, so you're saying that
>
> interface Document : Node {
> Document createDocument{} raises {DOMException}
> }
>
> isn't valid CORBA syntax and so thats why its not been
> included?
Not at all. But what such a method would do is to allow you
to create a new Document, *given an existing Document*. It
doesn't help unless you already have a Document to apply the
method to. IDL has no concept of "static" or "class" methods.
A plausible alternative would be to put createDocument() into
the DOMImplementation interface, but this just pushes off the
problem: how does one get an instance of DOMImplementation?
This is the "infinite regress" Miles mentioned.
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