D O M ?!?!

a standard API to access and manipulate:

• document content: generic XML (XHTML, SVG, SMIL, ...), HTML
• style: CSS

language and platform independent: OMG IDL

• Java
• ECMAScript
• (Perl, Python, C, C++, ...)

freedom of the underlying structure: Interfaces

• could be integrated on top of an existing structure
• use cases oriented implementations

Set of modules: Core, XML, Events, CSS, Range, ...