>Beside that: The minimum requirement for a final DOM version is that >it offers a way so that each well formed XML document can be parsed >properly. >... >the DOM shall seek to support a proper treatment of PIs and the DTD in >their order of appearance. I agree. The DOM isn't "final" yet, and hasn't stopped seeking. Level 2 is an incremental improvement, but there are many issues still to be addressed in Level 3 and beyond. The likely alternative, at this point in the design cycle, would be to defer the question to Level 3 and have no factories for either Document and DocumentType in Level 2. Given that choice, I'd rather go with what we have, even if it's only a small improvement. It _will_ be helpful to applications which want to generate DOMs as output; for most non-parser code, the sequence of DocumentType to Document to content does make sense. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM ResearchReceived on Thursday, 2 March 2000 09:03:29 GMT
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