W3C DOM Recommendation, October 01, 1998. List of Changes
From owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Fri Oct 2 19:53:28 1998 From: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net> To: "XML-Dev Mailing list" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Welcome, DOM! - a copy of the list of changes Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:40:14 -0700
Following is from Arnaud Le Hors, W3C DOM Activity Lead.
- wstring changed to DOMString
- changed Attribute interface to Attr
- moved pi to extended interfaces
- even though this can't be formerly specified in IDL some attributes are now defined to raise an exception on setting or getting. This concerns CharacterData.data, Node.dataValue, and ProcessingInstruction.data
- added text about duplicate entities and notations being discarded
- added text about entities and notations not being editable in any way
- changed INVALID_NAME_ERR to INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
- added INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR exception to createEntityReference
- added text about the Entity nodes being readonly and not having any parent
- changed ExceptionCode to unsigned short
- added text about HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR being raised by Node.insertBefore/replaceChild/appendChild when the specified node is one of this node's ancestors.
- added text about the Notation nodes being readonly and not having any parent.
- HTMLDocument.getElementById() returns null and not void if no matching elements exist.
- changed attributes HTMLSelectElement.options and HTMLSelectElement.length to readonly.
- clarified description of attribute HTMLTaleElement.rows
- changed attribute HTMLTableElement.tBodies to readonly
- TMLTableElement.tHead and TMLTableElement.tFoot return null and not void if no such element exists.
- changed description of HTMLTableRowElement.insertCell() to make it clear it inserts TD elements.
- changed attribute HTMLTableSectionElement.rows to readonly.
- added missing HTMLTextAreaElement.value attribute
- added a References section
Don Park
Docuverse
[Note: see the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) main entry.]
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