DOM??????

[shivani anand]

What is full form of DOM? Is any programming language used to create DOM application?
shivani

[Pho Tek]

DOM = Document Object Model
As long as there is an implementation of the DOM idl (spec
available at W3c.org); you will be able to navigate thru the tree structure. Some languages applicable to programming the DOM are ECMAScript, VBScript, Java, Perl..
Pho

[shivani anand]

thanks, for replying. DOM is totally new thing for me. I am failiar with CORBA.I've few more ques. regarding DOM...
Is DOM language independent like CORBA?
IS their any relationship between DOM and CORBA/COM?
What is difference between documet object model and component object model?
shivani

[Anil Vupputuri]

Originally posted by shivani anand:
Is DOM language independent like CORBA?
IS their any relationship between DOM and CORBA/COM?
What is difference between documet object model and component object model?
shivani

Well there is a misconception in relating DOM & CORBA...
**As DOM is not an object model in the same way as COM and CORBA.Where CORBA are lang. independent definitions to specify interfaces and objects, DOM is specified set of interfaces and objects designed for managing HTML and XML documents.
**The Document Object Model (DOM) is an API that provides a standardized way for accessing and manipulating XML and HTML documents. In DOM, the XML/HTML document is defined as a tree structure of objects that resides in whole in the computer's memory. This tree can be traversed thru node points with parsing in languages like Java,c++... and M$ has its own parsers.
** As said earlier Document Object Model is for XML/HTML documents. Component Object Model is creating an object which can be accessed remotely in Distributed environment.

Hope this helps....


[This message has been edited by Anil Vupputuri (edited March 15, 2001).]