At 12:17 PM -0700 10/22/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote: >Interesting, so you are basically arguing against things like the >HTML and XML DOM? How will this be rationalized by the W3C? > DOMs are not part of the Web. They are local, non-interchangeable APIs and models built from syntax. The syntax is exchanged, and from that you build your DOM and I build mine, but they are not the same. For one thing my DOM is likely to be a Java DOM and yours is likely to be a Microsoft DOM with different methods, different classes, different internal data structures, and more. But is ithis is all cool, as long as I only send you XML, not DOMs. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitAReceived on Wednesday, 22 October 2003 16:56:19 GMT
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