May I point out that, as a matter of fact, the DOM is already defined in XML? As described in the Production Notes [1], the spec (HTML), the IDL definition, the Java and ECMAScript bindings are generated from a single XML source document. For historical reasons, this is not achieved with XSL, but I would expect this to be possible. The DOM WG has actually discussed several times the idea of switching to XSLT, the only reason we haven't done so is a lack of resources. A lot of time has been spent on developing the tools we currently use and, while admittedly it would be very neat to do, we just can't afford doing so. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/production-notes.html -- Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology GroupReceived on Friday, 19 November 1999 12:06:32 GMT
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