[whatwg] Type of PropertyNodeList.contents

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Andrew Oakley wrote:
>
> PropertyNodeList.contents seems to be defined differently in the IDL and
> the text related to it.
> 
> The IDL says:
> > typedef sequence<any> PropertyValueArray;
> > 
> > interface PropertyNodeList : NodeList {
> >           attribute PropertyValueArray contents;
> > };
> 
> The description says:
> > The contents DOM attribute on the PropertyNodeList object, on
> > getting, must return a newly constructed DOMStringArray whose values
> > are the values obtained from the content DOM property of each of the
> > elements represented by the object, in tree order.
> 
> DOMStringArray doesn't appear to be defined anywhere, however DOM 3 Core
> has a DOMStringList which seems to have this purpose.
> 
> HTMLPropertyCollection.names returns a DOMStringList, so I think we
> should be consistent and also return a DOMStringList for
> PropertyNodeList.contents.

Fixed. It can't be a DOMStringList (nor a DOMStringArray, whatever that 
was supposed to be), because some of the values are going to themselves be 
items, and not strings.

Thanks,
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