W3C DOM Recommendation, October 01, 1998. List of Changes

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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

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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

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