WD-DOM-19980720
WD-DOM-19980720http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-DOM-19980720
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-DOM-19980720/DOM.ps
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-DOM-19980720/DOM.tgz
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-DOM-19980720/DOM.zip
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-DOM-19980416
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM-19980318
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM-971209
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM-971009
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc.
Vidur Apparao, Netscape
Steve Byrne, JavaSoft
Mike Champion, ArborText
Scott Isaacs, Microsoft
Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS
Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research
Robert Sutor, IBM
Chris Wilson, Microsoft
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc.
Vidur Apparao, Netscape
Steve Byrne, JavaSoft (until November 1997)
Mike Champion, ArborText, Inc.
Scott Isaacs, Microsoft (until January, 1998)
Arnaud Le Hors, W3C
Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS
Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research
Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad, Inc.
Bill Smith, Sun (after November 1997)
Jared Sorensen, Novell
Robert Sutor, IBM
Ray Whitmer, iMall
Chris Wilson, Microsoft (after January, 1998)
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This specification defines Level 1 of the Document Object Model, a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The Document Object Model provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them. Vendors can support the DOM as an interface to their proprietary data structures and APIs, and content authors can write to the standard DOM interfaces rather than product-specific APIs, thus increasing interoperability on the Web.
The goal of the DOM specification is to define a programmatic interface for XML and HTML. The Level 1 DOM specification is separated into two parts: Core and HTML. The Level 1 Core DOM specification provides a low-level set of fundamental interfaces that can represent any structured document, as well as defining extended interfaces for representing an XML document. These extended XML interfaces need not be implemented by a DOM implementation that only provides access to HTML documents; all of the fundamental interfaces in the Core document must be implemented. A compliant DOM implementation that implements the extended XML interfaces is required to also implement the fundamental Core interfaces, but not the HTML interfaces. The Level 1 HTML specification provides additional, higher-level interfaces that are used with the fundamental interfaces defined in the Level 1 Core specification to provide a more convenient view of an HTML document. A compliant implementation of the HTML DOM will implement all of the fundamental Core interfaces as well as the HTML interfaces.
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