- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:36:11 +0200
- To: www-dom@w3.org
"Stephen R. Savitzky" wrote: > > I don't recall seeing anything in DOM level 2 (not DOM 2.0) that changes > _anything_ in level 1. I surely hope there isn't anything like that indeed, because we certainly don't want to break backwards compatibility. > It's all a bunch of additional interfaces that (in > my opinion) still aren't particularly useful outside the scripting > environment that the DOM is intended for. Scripting? I'm not sure what you mean. Independently of your programming environment DOM Level 2 introduces some important new pieces such as support for namespaces, to only name one. This may not be useful to you but it is to many others. > The DOM is most emphatically NOT a general-purpose, easily-implemented, > least-common-denominator interface for SGML. It was never intended to be > and, as far as I can tell, never will be. This is definitely correct. Our charter only lists HTML and XML as our target languages. -- Arnaud Le Hors - W3C, DOM Activity Lead - http://www.w3.org/People/Arnaud
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