Posted by Bob on 05/18/06 19:48

David Segall wrote:
> Bob <bob@bob.org> wrote:
>
>> David Segall wrote:
>>> Bob <bob@bob.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Afifov wrote:
>>>>> Hello this maybe out of context, but there is no group here for this.
>>>>>
>>>>> I dont have any freaking idea about DOM and how to use it. Can anyone
>>>>> point me to some places for the layman or begginer? I know xml though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>> DOM = CSS + Javascript, or Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Just to give you an idea.
>>> It would be the wrong idea. This article contains a lucid account of
>>> what the Document Object Model actually is.
>>> <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ajaxintro4/>
>> For a nonprogrammer, nonwebdesigner type, it would not be tremendously
>> far off. See:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/DOM/
> I can see how you were misled by the W3C summary because it confuses
> the definition with the usage of the DOM. The only useful part of the
> "What is the Document Object Model?" paragraph is "The Document Object
> Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface". The idea behind
> the DOM is that it is a definition of a data structure; how you access
> that data is irrelevant.
>
> It is true that most readers of this group would populate a Document
> Object Model using CSS and [X]HTML and may access it or alter it using
> Javascript. However, if you were writing a browser you would access
> the DOM using C++ or Java.
>
> Forgive me for being pedantic about this. I feel it is important to
> distinguish between the way the data on a web page is represented -
> the DOM - and the way it is accessed (CSS, HTML, Javascript, Java
> etc).

You're making sense. I just printed out that IBM page and I am reading
it now. :)

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