[webkit-dev] Strings & Element Names Question

[Darin Adler]

On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Eric Seidel wrote:

> Also "mfrac" being a manually typed constant counts as "copy/paste  
> code" and is bad, partially because it's more error prone.

To expand on this point: If you use mfracTag, you can’t accidentally  
type mfarcTag and have it compile. If you use "mfrac" you can easily  
accidentally type "mfarc".

If you already know something is a MathML element then you can use  
hasLocalName instead of hasTagName. The hasLocalName(mfracTag)  
function is a great idea efficiency-wise, because it compiles to just  
a global variable access and a pointer compare.

I think because of these two, you should use hasLocalName. You could  
use hasTagName if you did not know it was a MathML element, but since  
you do know you can use hasLocalName.

     -- Darin