- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:34:45 -0400
- To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
At 9:07 AM -0700 10/23/03, Dare Obasanjo wrote: >You confuse interoperating data models with interoperating at the >API level. The only way things like CSS work is if data models are >being shared across browsers not just whether browsers can recognize >the CSS syntax. The main problem with interoperability with both the >XML and HTML DOMs is that the core definitions are so lacking in >functionality that various parties (both open source and proprietary >software vendors) have seen fit to embrace and extend them ( I >believe your XOM is an example of this). > > XOM neither embraces or extends the DOM. It replaces it. I would have a lot less problem with Microsoft's XML APIs if Microsoft would stop pretending these were DOM, and instead call them something else. -- 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/cafeaulaitA
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