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- To: <cwoerner@ensenda.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] DOM's javascript roots (was Re: [xml-dev] Have JDOM/ XOM / etc. failed?)
- From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:51:30 +0100
- In-reply-to: <1143838503.22721.53.camel@cwoerner>
- Thread-index: AcZVBmzKIcINpTq2S/6LyJqLWqhh3AAWj7hQ
> But the DOM will always be familiar to the
> programmer. Practically everyone can agree that is a Good
> Thing
No, if the consequence is that the interface invents its own concepts for
strings, lists, iterators, and maps, then a cross-language API is a really
Bad Thing. It's not the worst thing about DOM (far worse is the namespace
handling), but it's one of the constant irritations.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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