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Re: Welcome, DOM!

• From: "Don Park" <donpark@q...>
• To: "XML-Dev Mailing list" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 05:57:56 -0700

Tyler Baker wrote:
>Why were Attribute's changed to Attr's.  In a lot of ways this is sort of
trivial
>but verbosity in API's is almost always better than some shorthand
abbreviation.
>You can read words but not abbreviations.  Can someone please clarify the
>motivation behind this change?  I know this sort of issue is trivial but it
would
>be nice to know nonetheless why this change was made.


Attribute was renamed to Attr to avoid conflict with IDL's use of the word
Attribute.

Simon St. Laurent wrote:
> That's quite a toolset.  How are everyone's implementations coming along?

Coming right along.  Arnold's list of PR/REC differences made a big
difference.  FYI, the Docuverse DOM SDK will be updated over the weekend to
support the REC version of the DOM spec.

Best,

Don Park
Docuverse



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