NodeList was a response to a vehement insistance that "JavaScript users won't understand trees, so we need to give them something that looks more-or-less like an array." The same folks insisted on the "live view" behavior. I consider it NodeList horribly mixed metaphor, but it was an unavoidable compromise in order to get DOM Level 1 out the door.
My personal recommendation is to avoid using NodeList whenever possible. The Traversal mechanisms (Node Iterators and Tree Walkers) do a better job of making the live-view behavior explicit and handling it reasonably. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
