- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 11:45:59 +0100
- To: f.cameron@ulst.ac.uk, www-dom@w3.org
Stephen R. Savitzky wrote: > > DOM level 1 loses information -- it is not possible to reconstruct the > original document from the "equivalent" DOM tree. This is one of the > most serious problems with it, by the way. Another is the inability to > represent generic SGML documents. They're related. > > I am hoping that these two deficiencies will be addressed in Level 2. No. Level 2 won't address any of these, and I doubt any level will actually. First, SGML is clearly out of the picture. Second, the goal of the DOM WG is to make round-triping possible but this is round-triping as in DOM -> file -> DOM, and not file -> DOM -> file. In other words, it should be possible to serialize a DOM tree, read it back, and get an equivalent DOM tree. Keep in mind that the overall goal of the W3C DOM Activity is to define a standard API that enables people to write interoperable scripts/plug-ins/modules/programs. You don't need to know what quotes where used in the serialized version of the document for that. -- Arnaud Le Hors - W3C, DOM Activity Lead - http://www.w3.org/People/Arnaud
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