DOM - Creating Documents

[David Megginson]

Leigh Dodds writes:

 > Why doesn't the Document Object Model have a createDocument 
 > method to allow the creation of a new Document instance?

It's hard to guess what the original motivation was, and I have never
been a member of the DOM WG (and joined the IG fairly recently), but I
do think that it makes some sense: after all, the DOM will often be an
adapter interface to an entirely different structure, like a set of
database tables, and in such a contexts, createDocument might not make
sense at all.  Now, that said, it would be possible to have
createDocument simply throw an exception when it's inappropriate.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
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