On Apr 2, 2008, at 00:30, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Really? You mean document.body.item(5) does the same thing as
document.body.childNodes.item(5)? And that this is "common"? I
must have missed it....
I mean that the getter implementation for childNodes is roughly
"return this;".
This pattern is used in Crimson, Xerces and GNU JAXP DOM
implementations.
That doesn't really answer my question. Are all the same properties
available on |this| and |this.childNodes|? If so, that seems pretty
odd to me (though not actually prohibited by the DOM spec, of course).
Yes, getChildNodes() is available on an object implementing Element
after casting it to NodeList or through reflections. There's no
technical barrier to such casting--in the best case just docs saying
that doing so is naughty reliance on an unguaranteed implementation
detail and shouldn't be done.
--
Henri Sivonen
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