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Hans Aberg writes:
 > >> What is the DOM?
...
 > Do you have an URL on this?
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/

 > The combination that sounds right to me is
 > something like a DOM which can compiled to a WWW byte-code, which can
DOM gives you programmers access to the parse tree of the document. my
document says

 <foo><bar>hello</bar><overbar><bar>goodbye</bar></overbar></foo>

and the DOM will let you get at the bar elements inside overbars. how
do you get from there to your byte codes? yes, you need a hard-wired
conversion, or a transformation to a language that *is* understood
(like PGML, or Voyager HTML)

sebastian