[whatwg] getElementsByClassName()

[Lachlan Hunt]

Jim Ley wrote:
> On 9/5/05, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote:
>>I may not be understanding what you mean, but if optional parameters
>>aren't language independant, shouldn't it be defined in a more language
>>independant way, so that any non-ECMAScript languages can still
>>implement this?
> 
> Yes, DOM currently is language agnostic, however the optional
> className parameters aren't compatible with languages which can't do
> that.  So as defined now getElementsByClassName would not manage to do
> that.

In that case, should it be redefined as:

   NodeList getElementsByClassName(in DOMString classNames);

where classNames is a string of space separated class names?  That would 
be just as easy to implement and would work with languages that don't 
support optional parameters.

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Lachlan Hunt
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