Re: Should Node.getChildNodes return Text of Attr?

--- Min Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For the following XML:
> 
>   <?xml version='1.0'?><foo f='100'></foo>
> 
> when getChildNodes() is called on the root element,
> different 
> implementations of DOM return NodeList of different
> length.
> 
> Xerces2-J and Crimson return a NodeList which
> contains 1 Text node of value 
> "100"
> DOM4j and Python's minidom return a NodeList
> containing no nodes.
> 
> This could be a problem if one's doing a comparison
> between two DOM 
> implementations.  Unfortunately, this case is not
> covered by the current 
> DOM-TS, and I couldn't find anything on DOM spec. 
> What should be the 
> correct haviour?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ML

I think attributes should not show up as childnodes...
wether an element is the root element shouldn't make a difference

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