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[Didier PH Martin]
> Reading again your message I think I understand what you mean. I agree
> that stuff like the DOM is not the best stuff in town. Instead of using
> CORBA definitions, a spec could simply state how we define the object
> hierarchies and the object types (the one most commonly used in several
> typed languages). I think it's a matter of choices and paradigm trap.
> Sticking to the syntax we ended up with a syntax based API. Gee! a big
> of fresh air and some exercise brings back some common sense. So, W3C is
> traped in a certain paradigm and the bloat is the result of this
> dominant paradigm. I remember that in the SGML world we where beginning
> to understand that groves going beyond the syntaxic level where very
> useful, this is a lesson that didn't percolated in W3C workgroups.
>
But it has percolated to the RDF folks, who see their real job as providing
an infrastructure for semantics (graphs and model theory). The syntax is
often seen almost as a necessary evil.
Cheers,
Tom P
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