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Hi, just a quick question: Why doesn't the Document Object Model have a createDocument method to allow the creation of a new Document instance? I'd like to be able to build up a Document programmatically and later save it to disk as an XML document. I can see that the details of how a Document might be saved are implementation specific, but surely the actual *creation* of a Document is abstract enough to be included? Is this due for later amendment, or am I missing something subtle here? Presently I can see that the only way I can achieve this is to use the OpenXML package which has a DOMFactory object for creating a new Document. In other words I'm using an implementation specific feature when I was hoping to write my application around the DOM spec and then plug in any suitable DOM-compliant parser. It seems the spec is lacking in this regard. Thanks in advance. And also apologies if this has been discussed to death in the past. L. ================================================================== "Never Do With More, What Can Be Achieved With Less" ---William of Occam ================================================================== Leigh Dodds Eml: ldodds@i... ingenta ltd Tel: +44 1225 826619 BUCS Building, University of Bath Fax: +44 1225 826283 ================================================================== xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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