I think everyone recognizes some of the compromises that went
into DOM, and has a list of some mistakes they'd fix. But I
don't think there's a good consensus on which things are mistakes
rather than features ...
To put it differently: is there really room for another API
to represent XML structure?
I tend to think that DOM, warts and all, is "good enough" for
most purposes. And for those other purposes, I suspect that
no standard API could suit.
- Dave