xml-dev - [Fwd: DOM Level 2 Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation]

[Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>]

Janet Daly wrote:
> 
> W3C is pleased to announce that the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2
> has been released as a Proposed Recommendation. The W3C Advisory
> Committee has now been asked to advise on its disposition, according to
> the W3C Process, at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsPR
> 
> This announcement has three parts:
> 
> 1. The DOM Level 2 Proposed Recommendation URIs
> 2. A content summary of DOM Level 2
> 3. Results of the DOM Level 2 Candidate Recommendation Phase
> 
> ------
> 
> 1. The DOM Level 2 Proposed Recommendation URIs
> 
> DOM Level 2 consists of six modules, which are:
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 Core
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Core-20000927
>   Editors:
>   Mark Davis, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret,
>   Jonathan Robie, Lauren Wood
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 Views
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Views-20000927
>   Editors:
>   Laurence Cable, Arnaud Le Hors
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 HTML
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20000927
>   Editors:
>   Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 Style
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Style-20000927
>   Editors:
>   Vidur Apparao, Philippe Le Hégaret, Chris Wilson
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 Events
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Events-20000927
>   Editor:
>   Tom Pixley
> 
>   Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20000927
>   Editors:
>   Vidur Apparao, Mike Champion, Joe Kesselman,
>   Jonathan Robie, Peter Sharpe
> 
> All modules of the Proposed Recommendation evolved from the latest DOM
> Level 2 Candidate Recommendation, available at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510
> 
> 2. Content Summary of DOM Level 2
> 
> The DOM Level 2 is the major deliverable required by the
> charter of the Document Object Model Working Group.
> 
> This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2, a
> platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and
> scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and
> style of documents. The Document Object Model Level 2 builds on the
> Document Object Model Level 1.
> 
> The DOM Level 2 is made of a set of core interfaces to create and
> manipulate the structure and contents of a document and a set of
> optional modules. These modules contain specialized interfaces dedicated
> to XML, HTML, an abstract view, generic stylesheets, Cascading Style
> Sheets, Events, traversing the document structure, and a Range object.
> 
> The Working Group has published 7 drafts since December 1998, including
> a Last Call Working Draft on 23 September 1999 and 3 Candidate
> Recommendations starting from 10 December 1999.
> 
> The following excerpt is from Status of the Document section of the DOM
> Level 2 Core Proposed Recommendation, at:
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Core-20000927
> 
> This status section is duplicated in each of the DOM Level 2 Proposed
> Recommendation modules.
> 
>    "This is a W3C Proposed Recommendation for review
> by W3C members and other interested parties. W3C
> Advisory Committee Members are invited to send formal
> comments, visible only to the W3C Team, to
> dom-review@w3.org until October 25, 2000.
> 
>    Comments on this document are invited and are to be
> sent to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org. An
> archive is available at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/.
> 
>    Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not
> imply endorsement by the W3C membership. This is still
> a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
> obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
> inappropriate to cite W3C Proposed Recommendations
> as other than 'work in progress.'
> 
>    This document has been produced as part of the W3C
> DOM Activity. The authors of this document are the
> DOM WG members. Different modules of the Document Object
> Model have different editors.
> 
> A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical
> documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
> 
> The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has
> determined that the DOM Level 2 specification is stable,
> contributes to Web interoperability and is ready to enter
> the review process by the W3C Membership."
> 
> =================
> 
> 3. Results of the DOM Level 2 Candidate Recommendation Phase
> 
> The general goal of a W3C Candidate Recommendation period is to
> gain implementation experience and to demonstrate implementation
> interoperability.
> 
> The Working Group surveyed DOM developers and solicited reviews of the
> documents with this question in mind. Information about reviewers and
> their comments is available from:
> 
> Public Disposition of Comments:
> http://www.w3.org/DOM/L2CR2comments_public.html
> 
> The reviews of the developers raised a number of issues that the Working
> Group resolved and documented in its issues list.
> 
> Implementations have been made of every part of the spec, but
> the interoperability between different implementations has not
> been as exhaustively tested. However, what  interoperability testing
> has been done has yielded only positive results.  A significant number
> of different implementations from different sources were involved.
> As other specifications depend on DOM Level 2 (SMIL, SVG, MathML), and
> as the experience to date has been successful, the Director has approved
> DOM Level 2 to be presented to the AC for consideration as a
> Recommendation.
> 
> The deadline for receiving responses is 25 October 2000, 2400 GMT.
> 
> Every effort will be made by the W3C Team to reply to each comment,
> including public comments.
> 
> The Director's decision as to the status of the DOM Level 2 Proposed
> Recommendation is to be announced no earlier than 8 November 2000.
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and
> Philippe Le Hégaret, DOM Activity Lead;
> 
> Janet Daly, Head of Communications

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Philippe Le Hegaret - http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), DOM Activity Lead