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Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call

From: Bill de hÓra <bill AT dehora.net>
To: jcowan AT reutershealth.com
Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>, xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:15:02 +0000

jcowan AT reutershealth.com wrote:

2) Consider flushing the no-namespace constructors: they save only 3
characters
(plus optional whitespace) over the corresponding namespace constructors.
Trying to let people use a namespaceless subset of XOM really doesn't save
much mental space, I don't think; DOM has these things because Level 1
predates namespaces.

None of these are interesting rationales to my mind. The API is just fine in this regard. I would require XOM allow me the work with XML proper - in fact I thought that was much of the point of XOM.

Bill de hÓra

[XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/02/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, jcowan, 02/02/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, dirk bergstrom, 02/02/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/02/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, jcowan, 02/02/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/02/2004
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, John Cowan, 02/02/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Bradley S. Huffman, 02/02/2004
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, John Cowan, 02/02/2004
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Bradley S. Huffman, 02/02/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.0d23 Last Call, Bill de hÓra, 02/02/2004
  - [XOM-interest] Put methods, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] Put methods, jcowan, 02/05/2004
  - [XOM-interest] hasChildren vs. getChildCount == 0, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] hasChildren vs. getChildCount == 0, Dirk Bergstrom, 02/05/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] hasChildren vs. getChildCount == 0, Bill de hÓra, 02/05/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] hasChildren vs. getChildCount == 0, Janek Bogucki, 02/09/2004
  - [XOM-interest] UNDECLARED vs. CDATA, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004
  - [XOM-interest] Namespace methods, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004
  - [XOM-interest] Builder issues, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004
  - [XOM-interest] ID or identifier, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 02/05/2004