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DOM is primarily an API for accessing an XML document using the DOM data model while the XQuery and XPath data model is just that, a data model. As a general data model for XML infosets the DOM has some issues, as an API it is horrific.
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From: Gustaf Liljegren [mailto:gustaf.liljegren@bredband.net]
Sent: Sat 5/24/2003 12:15 PM
To: Joshua Allen
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Syntax + object model
Joshua Allen wrote:
>What you are describing is a "data model", not an "object model".
Admittedly, programming terminology isn't my domain. Why are XQuery and
XPath data models, while DOM is refered to as an object model?
Gustaf
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