Final Comparative Discussion
Short of the use of simple id attributes and span tags for substring manipulation, XMLC is a presentation technology that is completely transparent to anybody viewing a markup page about to be processed in the XMLC environment. It achieves this by turning the page into a DOM structure, then manipulating the structure. It is, however, more than direct DOM manipulation. As a compiler, XMLC offers significant capabilities and conveniences that greatly simplify the tasks of the designer, the Java developer, and the application architect. A couple of features have been reviewed in our previous two chapters, with many more to be discussed in Chapter 6, “XMLC Basics.”
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