RE: DOM 2 and .NET

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

> From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:32 AM
> To: Manos Batsis; xml-dev@lists.xml.org; XML-INTEREST@JAVA.SUN.COM
> Subject: RE: DOM 2 and .NET
>
>
> > > In the case of the "extra" stuff, pretty much every DOM
> implementation
> > > adds some extra stuff to cover things not covered in the spec, such
> as
> > > loading, saving, XPath, etc.  These particular three have
> > > been in MSXML
> >
> > (which after all, are proprietary) focused on implementing better
> > implementations of the actual DOM specs.
>
> Do you mean more complete implementations?  Your frustrations with
> coding to different DOM specs and having to maintain three different
> bodies of code are something I can sympathize with -- for W3C/DHTML DOM.
> In my experience, though, the major popular XML DOM implementations are
> pretty much 100% complete.  I haven't experienced any of the major XML

How about conformant DOM level 2 support in MSXML3/4? createElementNS and
related methods are missing, creating a lot of confusion everywhere...