function domGetAttribute(node, name) {
  return node.getAttribute(name);
  // NOTE(mesch): Neither in IE nor in Firefox, HTML DOM attributes
  // implement namespaces. All items in the attribute collection have
  // null localName and namespaceURI attribute values. In IE, we even
  // encounter DIV elements that don't implement the method
  // getAttributeNS().
}
Get an attribute from the DOM.  Simple redirect, exists to compress code.

@param {Element} node  Element to interrogate.
@param {string} name  Name of parameter to extract.
@return {string|null}  Resulting attribute.