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DOM appendChild question

• From: "David E. Cleary" <davec@p...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:52:30 -0500

Should it be possible to append a node to itself?

I.E. a.appendChild(a);

The DOM specifies that it is an error to try and append an ancestor of a
node as a child, but says nothing about whether the nodes are one in the
same. Is this a bug in the DOM spec, or should this work?

David Cleary
Progress Software

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