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Tyler, >The spec says: > >"The Attribute inherits the Node interface, which has a parentNode attribute. >This attribute is set to the Element associated with the attribute as an >expedient way of getting from the attribute to the Element. Note: In XML, the >value of an attribute is represented by the child nodes of an attribute node, >since the value can be contain entity references. Thus, attributes which contain >entity references will have a child list containing both text nodes and entity >reference nodes. In addition, tokenised attribute types, such as NMTOKENS will >result in a child list where each child represents a single token from the >attribute value." Please read the just recently released Proposed Recommendation version of the DOM spec which says: "DOM Attribute objects inherit the Node interface, but since they are not actually child nodes of the element they describe, the DOM does not consider them part of the document tree. Thus, the Node attributes parentNode, previousSibling, and nextSibling have a null value for Attribute objects." >>From a personal perspective, it would really suit the DOM much better if you >totally did away with the Node interface altogether and traverse the DOM tree by >element. The other option would of course be to nest elements, text, PIs, etc. >inside a Node object just like you would with any basic tree implementation. I don't think we are on the same page. Best, Don Park xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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