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David Megginson wrote: > -- a general-purpose DOM would be *extremely* inefficient for handling > things like vector graphics or 3D worlds (to name only two), though it > is always possible to expose their optimised object models through a > DOM interface later if necessary. In lots of applications, the data can't stay in an XML representation for very long anyway, because of what you're integrating it with/displaying it on/routing it through/converting it to/storing it in/etc... I view the DOM as a standard, OO way of manipulating the contents of a document. It lets applications get work done, even without taking an end-to-end OO approach. Perhaps I'm showing my bias here ;D 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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