- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:12:42 -0500
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Sorry, but the model of the web is the DOM, whether you like it or not. *The* model of the Web is not DOM. *The* model of the Web does not exist. There are multiple instances of *a* model of the Web. Several of these call themselves DOM, though I'm sure this group knows quite well just how different they really are. The map is not the world. The model is not the document. Any model is just a convenient local representation. The reality of the document is its text. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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