Re: [xml-dev] DOM's javascript roots (was Re: [xml-dev] Have JDOM / XOM / etc. failed?)

On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Of course. No method overloading. Think createElement,  
> createElementNS, etc. Java and C++ wouldn;t desing an API like that.

FWIW. This is as much an issue of supporting namespaces as anything  
else... they're a wart that shouldn't have made it too.

That said, there were a lot of tradeoffs made, but again, it was a  
case of good enough is good enough for the most part.