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• To: Margarita Isayeva <isayevam@y...>
• Subject: Re: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature of DOM
• From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20020820224754.41211.qmail@w...>

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Margarita Isayeva wrote:

> 1. XML document: persistent angle-bracketed
> representation of our data. 
> 2. DOM: in-memory representation of an XML document.
> 
> 1+2:
> DOM: in-memory representation of representation of our
> data
> 
> So far so good...
> 
> 3. DOM: a set of interfaces
> 4. Interface: a specification of implementation of
> something whose implementation is susceptible of
> specification.
> 
> Now putting it all together:
> 
> "DOM: a specification of implementation of
> representation of representation of our data".
> 
> Any problem with this definition?

Many might argue that the DOM is an in-memory representation of our data,
and XML is just a serialization of that repsentation to octets.

	-bob

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