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• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: uche.ogbuji@f...
• Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:47:17 -0800

uche.ogbuji@f... wrote:
> 
> > As David Brownell points out, this could be achieved by having an
> > xpath-in-DOM implementation that ran on top of your DOM. That way your
> > xpath expressions could return live DOM nodes and you'd avoid DOM bloat.
> > Though I'm not sure that such a nicely de-coupled approach would be as
> > efficient as the messier bloatware implementations that do it all in
> > one?
> 
> I very often run into non-rigourous invocations of "DOM bloat".  Note that
> DOM is a very large interface, 

... and constantly adding more functionality to it is the "bloat"
to which I referred.  The point's been raised that some of the
current functionality might well be completed, before adding any
newer functionality.  (Everything DTD-related is incomplete, since
one can't start with an empty DOM tree and add those functionalities
without requiring proprietary extensions.)

There's a concept called "software layering" that I adhere to -- I'm
sure you know it well.  Modules can use DOM without being bundled into
DOM itself.  XPath can (and IMHO should) be such a layer.

- Dave

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