Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Ivan, > >> Well... my implementation starts with an XML parser, and does everything >> on the resulting DOM tree. Ie, it will not work on an HTML+RDFa version >> unless it is proper XML... >> >> :-( > > Right...but that's not because an HTML DOM is different to an XHTML > DOM. The methods to obtain a list of children, to get attributes, not > move up and down the tree, to get the text nodes...a lot of these > methods are the same. > > However, that's not to say that this is the only way to do it. The > HTML could also be pushed through Tidy and then treated as XML. I'm > just saying that the 'processing model' as defined so far, is actually > agnostic as to the type of DOM being used. > Ah, o.k. Great. I must publicly admit that I have never ever worked with the HTML DOM (as opposed to the XHTML DOM; I try to keep away from javascript whenever I can:-), so... Ivan > (Even down to the use of @xmlns, in that this is processed just like > any other attribute, and so works in my parser, even when the browser > is running in HTML-mode.) > > Regards, > > Mark > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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