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RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

• To: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:22:59 -0600
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Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] wrote:


> >In my experience, it's these non-standard extensions that have 
> >made the DOM somewhat understandable and usable to the majority 
> >of Microsoft developers. For example, if you're on an element 
> >node and access the text property, it returns the child text 
> >node, imagine that!
> 
> I don't think that's what it does. If that's true, that's not what my
> getValue() method does. What if there's more than one child text
> node? What if the text is interrupted by tags? What if there are
> child elements that contain text of their own? 


I was citing the more common case of leaf text-only elements. Otherwise,
it should give you the string-value.


> But I think the text
> property does in fact do what my getValue() method does, but it may
> well have a confused a few developers about what text nodes are and
> where they are.


So you're saying that your getValue() method is also going to confuse
developers about text nodes?


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