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Re: [xml-dev] Here's a good question



On Thursday 27 September 2001 20:19, Tom Bradford wrote:
> Why does the DOM suck so badly?  I'll leave the many reasons for the
> question to your imagination and cumulative experience.

Because it's a great low-level access API that people insist on using for 
higher level stuff. Because no one uses (or implements) DOM Traversals. 
Becase the XPath bindings aren't there yet.

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