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On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 23:20, Arjun Ray wrote:
> Joe English <jenglish@f...> wrote:
> 
> | There were and are plenty of language-specific APIs for SGML/XML 
> | processing, and none of them need to interoperate with each other. 
> | This isn't something that the W3C needs to standardize IMO.
> 
> I agree.  The formlization of an infoset spec is not only enough, it makes
> DOM irrelevant.

Aren't there places were interoperable APIs are most needed? What about
parsers? This is still a major interoperability issue for web developers
even with recent versions of browsers, maybe not for the DOM, but we
have no way to control for instance client side transformations in a
browser.

I don't want to discuss if it should be done by the W3C or not, but
there still are contexts in which interoperable and standardized APIs
are badly needed!

Eric
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