[XML-SIG] Major upcoming DOM changes in CVS

Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:01:21 -0500 (EST)


uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com writes:
>        I just got through venting sulphur on another group about the 
>W3C's having published a new level 2 spec with a heading for Namespaces, but 
>no content.  Yet they made a raft of incoherent changes to the obscure area of
>node iterator fix-ups.  

	Hearty agreement here; with some new W3C specs making use of
namespaces, it seems obvious that you'd want to have standards for
using namespaces.  Otherwise, every DOM implementor will invent their
own nonstandard way of handling things, which is just what the W3C is
intended to prevent!  

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