As they say about Northern Ireland: "If you're not
confused, you don't really understand the situation."
So I guess I understand DOM better than I realized.
Thanks.
Nicholas
Eric Armstrong wrote:
>
> In simple terms, a DOM is "Document OBJECT model".
> It's a tree-structured hierarchy of objects that
> comprise a document.
>
> That's probably all you want for the glossary.
> On the other hand...
>
> ...I have serious quarrels with what the w3c
> chose to consider as an object, and the way the
> tree is structured. (It's a nightmare to process.)
>
> The Java version of DOM (JDOM) put together by
> Jason Hunter and friends is a true OBJECT model,
> where each object corresponds to an element
> (xml tag). The "objects" in a DOM are much lower
> level -- every attribute, bit of text, CDATA
> section, and processing instruction is a separate
> object, that hang from "element objects", that
> are hardly deserving of the name. The resulting
> tree is a mass of complexity, without much of
> object-oriented grace to reccommend it.
>
> On the other hand, the very simplicy of that
> structure makes it easy to process in non-object
> oriented languages. So my qualms are not with
> the structure, but with calling it a Document
> OBJECT Model. "Document Structure" would have
> been a more fitting and appropriate name, in
> my book.
>
> "N. C a r r o l l" wrote:
> >
> > Putting up some OHS-related definitions at:
> >
> > http://bootstrap.org/ohs/faqs/glossary.html
> >
> > The definition of a DOM escapes me. Can anyone point
> > me to a very brief definition, that would make sense
> > to a resident of this planet? (Earth/Sol system)
> >
> > Nicholas
> >
> > --
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> >
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