The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) working group has released candidate recommendations of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification and the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification.
Changes since the last draft in the Core specification include
DOMStringList interface now has a contains(String str) method. NameList interface has contains(String name) and contains(String name, String namespaceURI) methods. TypeInfo class now has an isDerivedFrom() method to tell whether one type is derived from another by restriction, extension, union, or list. getOffset() method has split into getByteOffset() and getUtf16Offset(). (I really don't approve of this change. It should be a sinngle character offset as in the last draft.)DOMConfiguration has a new getParameterNames() method that returns a list of all known parameters.Of special note with this release, "Given the lack of implementation commitments regarding character normalization, the DOM Working Group considers it "at risk". This affects the "check-character-normalization" and "normalize-characters" parameters defined in the DOMConfiguration interface in the [DOM Level 3 Core]. The Working Group may remove the parameters before requesting Proposed Recommendation status."
In the Load-Save draft, the most substantive change appears to be that the
optional convenience interfaces DocumentLS and ElementLS have been removed completely.
Editorially, methods like createDOMParser() and createDOMSerializer() appear to have been renamed
createLSParser() and createLSSerializer().
Interfaces like DOMInput and DOMFilter are now
LSInput and LSFilter. DOMSerializer.writeURI() is now LSSerializer.writeToURI(). DOMInput.getCertified() and setCertified() are now LSInput.getCertifiedText() and setCertifiedText().
Comments are due by November 30.
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