Re: scrollIntoView for XML documents

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <d2hg5g$8p51__12377.8208428577$1112294497$gmane$org@ripley.netscape.com>
conor325 wrote:
> And would it then make sense to go "the whole way" and support
> scrollIntoView for such mixed namespace documents too? Given that
> Mozilla supports CSS styling and XPath resolution for arbitrary XML
> already, add this and there is little or no reason to recompose XML
> into HTML for viewing.

Except if you want your documents to be accessible.  Or have useful semantics in 
general....

Sending arbitrary XML on the wire is generally NOT a good idea.

> With this triple, a pointer to any place in an
> XML document is easy to render in a browser window.

Define "place in an XML document", please?

-Boris
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