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Leigh Dodds wrote:
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> > The reason for not allowing
> > tagName to be changed has been explained to me (that an implementation
> > may use different classes to implement different elements), but
> > doesn't seem sufficient (allowing tagName to be mutable or throw some
> > exception may be tolerable, and being able to ask the DOM
> > implementation if it allows general element renaming would be useful.
>
> I wasn't aware of that. Interesting. Presumably this is to allow custom
> DOM implementations (e.g. for SVG) to substitute their own implementations?
> Is this feature used in practice?
Not only custom DOM implementations, but also DOM wrappers around other
APIs. If you had getTagName() return a static constant or
getClass().getName() (excuse my Java), what meaning would changing the
tag name have?
Ari.
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