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- From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@develop.com>
- To: "Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@qub.com>, <aaron@skonnard.com>, "Xml-Dev@Xml. Org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:47:57 -0600
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>
> Also:
>
> Isn't:
>
> NodeList getElementsByTagName(java.lang.String tagname);
>
> a degenerated form of :
>
> NodeList getNodes(scheme, expression, currentNode)
>
Similar...but getElementsByTagName only returns Element nodes by name where
XPath expressions are capable of returning all *core* node types, not just
element nodes. It really makes sense to have the API available on the Node
interface because relative expressions can be applied to all *core* node
types (element, attribute, text, comment, pi).
> Currently getElementsByTagName resides in Document
> interface.
>
Yes, but it also exists in the Element interface (it's just in Document for
convenience). If this API is in the Node interface, it's available
everywhere.
-aaron
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