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From: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <sacerdot@cs.unibo.it>
To: Yang Shouxun <yang.shx@fltrp.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Q: type conversion with Gdome
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:44:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216201458.6912.81.camel@faust.cs.unibo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807161713.23716.yang.shx@fltrp.com>

Dear Yang,

not every node is an element. Thus you need to use dinamic cast:

let node = ... in
  (* next line may raise GdomeInit.DOMCastException *)
let element = Gdome.element_of_node node in
  ...

						Cheers,
						C.S.C.

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 17:13 +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've been using Gdome for some time now and I always find it difficult to deal 
> with the type system. Here is the issue:
> 
> The document class has a
>  method getElementsByTagName :
>       tagname:Gdome.domString -> Gdome.nodeList
> and from a nodeList object I can only get Gdome.node objects, while we know 
> they should be Gdome.element objects.
> 
> My question is how to convert from Gdome.node to Gdome.element? 
> 
> P.S. Gdome.element can be converted to Gdome.node, but not in the other 
> direction as far as I know.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> shouxun
> 
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2008-07-16  9:13 ` Yang Shouxun
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2008-07-17  1:42     ` [Caml-list] " Yang Shouxun

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