createElement/createElementNS problem

[Christophe Jolif <cj...@ilog.fr>]

It seems that Jon & Chris (the only ones to have expressed opinions on
that in the WG) consider that in the case of an SVGDocument (not a
generic Document) createElement should return SVGElement and not generic
Element. If I well understand this will mean we will have to modify our
SVG DOM implementation to follow this if we want to be compatible...

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Subject: 
             Re: dom-EventListeners-BE-04.svg
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             Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:36:11 -0500 (EST)
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             w3c-svg-wg@w3.org
        Date: 
             Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:34:57 +0100
        From: 
             Chris Lilley <ch...@w3.org>
  Organization: 
             W3C
          To: 
             Christophe Jolif <cj...@ilog.fr>
         CC: 
             Jon Ferraiolo <jf...@adobe.com>, SVG Working Group
<w3...@w3.org>
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             1 , 2 , 3





Christophe Jolif wrote (well, quoted the spec):

>        To create an element with a qualified name and namespace URI, use
> the createElementNS

Yes, but if there is namespace defaulting then you can use unqualified
names and they are still in a particular namespace.

In other words, as long as you don't need to create foo:rect or
whatever,
then you are OK.

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Subject: Re: dom-EventListeners-BE-04.svg
Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:45:44 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:44:43 -0800
From: "Jon Ferraiolo" <jf...@adobe.com>
To: Chris Lilley <ch...@w3.org>
CC: Christophe Jolif <cj...@ilog.fr>, SVG Working Group
<w3...@w3.org>
References: <3A...@ilog.fr>

At 11:47 PM 11/29/00 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:


[...]

I don't agree. The createElement() method will create an element in the 
same namespace as the document, which in this case is SVG, isn't it? I 
don't see why we need to createElementNS(). If this were true, then
every 
HTML script which calls createElement() would also be incorrect.

Jon


>--
>Chris