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I thought I would post some clarification of the DOM work here, since it's an acronym that's been mentioned a couple of times. W3C has a working group called the Document Object Model Working Group. See http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DOM/. To quote the activity statement on the User Interface domain page on the W3C site: (http://www.w3.org/UI/) "The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The document can be further processed and the results of that processing can be incorporated back into the presented page." The name of the DOM group is a little misleading, since we are trying to standardize an interface rather than the underlying model. Obviously there will be more than a little overlap between the DOM and XAPI. The DOM will be more general - it has to work with HTML documents as well as XML documents, and it has to be platform- and language-independent. We are writing the interface in IDL, and will also do language bindings to Java and probably C++ and JavaScript. Most of the people on the DOM group are also on the xml-dev mailing list, as we want to be sure that whatever API is decided on here flows into the DOM specification. The full DOM specification will contain a lot more and take a lot longer than the basic XAPI being talked about here. The first draft of level one is due to be ready by the end of August and I will post the URL here when it is ready. cheers, Lauren --- Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc. (posting as chair of the W3C DOM WG) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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