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Janet Daly wrote: > > W3C is pleased to announce that the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 > has been released as a Proposed Recommendation. The W3C Advisory > Committee has now been asked to advise on its disposition, according to > the W3C Process, at: > > http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsPR > > This announcement has three parts: > > 1. The DOM Level 2 Proposed Recommendation URIs > 2. A content summary of DOM Level 2 > 3. Results of the DOM Level 2 Candidate Recommendation Phase > > ------ > > 1. The DOM Level 2 Proposed Recommendation URIs > > DOM Level 2 consists of six modules, which are: > > Document Object Model Level 2 Core > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Core-20000927 > Editors: > Mark Davis, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret, > Jonathan Robie, Lauren Wood > > Document Object Model Level 2 Views > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Views-20000927 > Editors: > Laurence Cable, Arnaud Le Hors > > Document Object Model Level 2 HTML > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20000927 > Editors: > Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret > > Document Object Model Level 2 Style > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Style-20000927 > Editors: > Vidur Apparao, Philippe Le Hégaret, Chris Wilson > > Document Object Model Level 2 Events > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Events-20000927 > Editor: > Tom Pixley > > Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20000927 > Editors: > Vidur Apparao, Mike Champion, Joe Kesselman, > Jonathan Robie, Peter Sharpe > > All modules of the Proposed Recommendation evolved from the latest DOM > Level 2 Candidate Recommendation, available at: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510 > > 2. Content Summary of DOM Level 2 > > The DOM Level 2 is the major deliverable required by the > charter of the Document Object Model Working Group. > > This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2, a > platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and > scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and > style of documents. The Document Object Model Level 2 builds on the > Document Object Model Level 1. > > The DOM Level 2 is made of a set of core interfaces to create and > manipulate the structure and contents of a document and a set of > optional modules. These modules contain specialized interfaces dedicated > to XML, HTML, an abstract view, generic stylesheets, Cascading Style > Sheets, Events, traversing the document structure, and a Range object. > > The Working Group has published 7 drafts since December 1998, including > a Last Call Working Draft on 23 September 1999 and 3 Candidate > Recommendations starting from 10 December 1999. > > The following excerpt is from Status of the Document section of the DOM > Level 2 Core Proposed Recommendation, at: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Core-20000927 > > This status section is duplicated in each of the DOM Level 2 Proposed > Recommendation modules. > > "This is a W3C Proposed Recommendation for review > by W3C members and other interested parties. W3C > Advisory Committee Members are invited to send formal > comments, visible only to the W3C Team, to > dom-review@w... until October 25, 2000. > > Comments on this document are invited and are to be > sent to the public mailing list www-dom@w.... An > archive is available at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/. > > Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not > imply endorsement by the W3C membership. This is still > a draft document and may be updated, replaced or > obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is > inappropriate to cite W3C Proposed Recommendations > as other than 'work in progress.' > > This document has been produced as part of the W3C > DOM Activity. The authors of this document are the > DOM WG members. Different modules of the Document Object > Model have different editors. > > A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical > documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR. > > The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has > determined that the DOM Level 2 specification is stable, > contributes to Web interoperability and is ready to enter > the review process by the W3C Membership." > > ================= > > 3. Results of the DOM Level 2 Candidate Recommendation Phase > > The general goal of a W3C Candidate Recommendation period is to > gain implementation experience and to demonstrate implementation > interoperability. > > The Working Group surveyed DOM developers and solicited reviews of the > documents with this question in mind. Information about reviewers and > their comments is available from: > > Public Disposition of Comments: > http://www.w3.org/DOM/L2CR2comments_public.html > > The reviews of the developers raised a number of issues that the Working > Group resolved and documented in its issues list. > > Implementations have been made of every part of the spec, but > the interoperability between different implementations has not > been as exhaustively tested. However, what interoperability testing > has been done has yielded only positive results. A significant number > of different implementations from different sources were involved. > As other specifications depend on DOM Level 2 (SMIL, SVG, MathML), and > as the experience to date has been successful, the Director has approved > DOM Level 2 to be presented to the AC for consideration as a > Recommendation. > > The deadline for receiving responses is 25 October 2000, 2400 GMT. > > Every effort will be made by the W3C Team to reply to each comment, > including public comments. > > The Director's decision as to the status of the DOM Level 2 Proposed > Recommendation is to be announced no earlier than 8 November 2000. > > For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and > Philippe Le Hégaret, DOM Activity Lead; > > Janet Daly, Head of Communications -- Philippe Le Hegaret - http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), DOM Activity Lead
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