[XML-SIG] Specializing DOM exceptions

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, after a quick survey of my code, the only place I import Node is in 
> > order to get at the constants.
> 
> Yup, I noticed this in 4Suite code, and I kept wondering about the
> rational of doing so, since almost every object you manipulate _is_ a
> node, and therefore has access to the class attributes. 
> In other words a typical line of code is: 
> "if some_node.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE :"
> 
> Is there a difference in performance with:
> "if some_node.nodeType == some_node.ELEMENT_NODE :" ?

Nope.  It's all about developer's intertia, AKA cutnpasteitis.


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