FW: DOM 2 and .NET

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

Follow up:

in <news://msnews.microsoft.com/gqYOI$SFBHA.286@cppssbbsa01.microsoft.com>,
Microsoft confirms that DOM level 2 conformance is not planned for MSXML4.

Sigh.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 10:16 PM
> To: Joshua Allen; Manos Batsis; xml-dev@lists.xml.org;
> XML-INTEREST@JAVA.SUN.COM
> Subject: RE: DOM 2 and .NET
>
>
> > 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...
>