Summary
This chapter looked in some detail at the W3C XML DOM. It examined the need for a good universal DOM. Also, after looking at the different types of DOM models, you learned about all the interfaces of the W3C DOM. The chapter finished with a look at some of the implementations of DOM. Also, you learned how they could be incorporated in applications.
The DOM Level1 is a great start that allows developers to actually manipulate XML files. Even though the recommendation is less than a year old, there are already software implementations from many of the major manufacturers.
At the time of this writing, the proposed Level2 recommendation has just been made public. This will allow access to the full DTD, style sheets, and namespaces. This ...
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