On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:29, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
But for the *what* to bind... enter DOM and it's friends (DOM Events, XPath, SVG DOM and some assorted other things like SMIL, XForms, etc).
The W3C has done some decent work here. We can use their IDL's and language bindings to tell us *what* our API should look like.
While I rather vehemently oppose using DOM for our internal representation (at least at the bottom-most level), I think it is the best choice for our externally visible APIs (at least as the preferred/straightforward option).
DOM's universality aside, one of the reasons for this is that over the next twenty releases or so the internal representation will continue going through some major churn. Having a stable external APIs is a good thing.
Oh, and XPath can be a powerful little scripting language itself.
XPath is a beautiful thing.
-mental