New methods in Node interface

• Adds:

  Base URI

  The URI this document came from. May be null.

  Tree position

  The order of a node relative to another reference node in tree order

  Methods to set the text content of a node

  Methods to test for equality

  Methods to work with namespaces

  Methods to associate user data with each node

• I will only show the new methods. Currently, the plan is to simply add these to the existing Node interface.

• Java binding:

  package org.w3c.dom;
  
  public interface Node {
  
    public String getBaseURI();
  
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING   = 0x01;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING   = 0x02;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR    = 0x04;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT  = 0x08;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT  = 0x10;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE   = 0x20;
    public static final short TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x00;
  
    public int compareTreePosition(Node other) throws DOMException;
  
    public String  getTextContent() throws DOMException;
    public void    setTextContent(String textContent) throws DOMException;
    
    public Object  setUserData(String key, Object data, UserDataHandler handler);
    public Object  getUserData(String key);
  
    public boolean isSameNode(Node other);
    public boolean isEqualNode(Node arg, boolean deep);
  
    public String  lookupNamespacePrefix(String namespaceURI);
    public String  lookupNamespaceURI(String prefix);
    public void    normalizeNS();
    public Node    getAs(String feature);
  
    public Object  getKey();
  
  }

• In IDL:

  interface Node {
  
    readonly attribute DOMString baseURI;
  
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING    = 0x01;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING    = 0x02;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR     = 0x04;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT   = 0x08;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT   = 0x10;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE    = 0x20;
    const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x00;
  
    unsigned short compareTreePosition(in Node other);
    
    attribute DOMString textContent; // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                     // raises(DOMException) on retrieval
  
    boolean   isSameNode(in Node other);
    DOMString lookupNamespacePrefix(in DOMString namespaceURI);
    DOMString lookupNamespaceURI(in DOMString prefix);
    boolean   isEqualNode(in Node arg, in boolean deep);
    Node getInterface(in DOMString feature);
    DOMKeyObject setUserData(in DOMString key, in DOMKeyObject data, 
     in UserDataHandler handler);
    DOMKeyObject getUserData(in DOMString key);
  
  };