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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Margarita Isayeva wrote:
> 1. XML document: persistent angle-bracketed
> representation of our data.
> 2. DOM: in-memory representation of an XML document.
>
> 1+2:
> DOM: in-memory representation of representation of our
> data
>
> So far so good...
>
> 3. DOM: a set of interfaces
> 4. Interface: a specification of implementation of
> something whose implementation is susceptible of
> specification.
>
> Now putting it all together:
>
> "DOM: a specification of implementation of
> representation of representation of our data".
>
> Any problem with this definition?
Many might argue that the DOM is an in-memory representation of our data,
and XML is just a serialization of that repsentation to octets.
-bob
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