The W3C DOM page is here: http://www.w3.org/DOM/
The DOM Spec is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM/=20
"The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface =
that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update =
the content, structure and style of documents."
Mike D
DataChannel
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Murray-Rust [SMTP:peter@ursus.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 1997 10:36 AM
To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: General comments on parsers
At 08:18 11/12/97 -0800, Don Park wrote:
>The situation is complicated by the fact that W3C is working on and has =
not
>yet released its own version of Java XML Object Model. Since it will =
be
Is this the same as DOM? If so, is there any timescale.
Not being part of the DOM process I am now somewhat confused. Does this
mean that there is a formal program to produce an API for XML parsers? =
If
so, what is the timescale? I'm sure there are some readers who are =
involved
;-)
I'm an impatient beast and I worry about waiting for things like this to
happen if it's going to be a long time. During that time we'll have =
another
5-10 Java based parsers, all with different terminology. In another
proposal I will try to address the terminology :-)
>difficult to have all existing Java XML parsers to conform to a single
>object model, I think the best approach is for someone to write a new =
Java
>parser framework which provides a reasonable object model and acts as =
the
>Universal XML Parser (UXP?:-).
Is this a short-term or long term solution? If long term, what is the
difference/benefit between this and the OM?
>
>UXP should use some kind of simple registry scheme and a UI to allow =