- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:26:49 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
> That being stated, the DOM needs to do a better job of helping > implementations figure out how to deal with namespace declarations during > serialization - perhaps by making it possible to specify the desired > prefix->URI mappings, etc. I believe that will be considered in DOM Level 3's Load/Save (serialization) chapter. > 2) The DOM *must* provide an API for Infoset addressing. What you're asking for is an API for querying, which is a higher-level operation. There's room for debate about whether that should be an API specified by the DOM, or an API implemented by DOMs and other XML processing models. The DOM is not the only possible way of representing the Infoset. If you want a single API across querying languages (which I agree is the right answer), I suspect we should wait until unified semantics are described by the Query Working Group. That's why the Query chapter in Level 2 turned into the Traversal chapter. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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