Re: [HtmlUnit] HTML DOM implementation

[Christian S. <chr...@ne...>]

Mike Bowler wrote:
> Christian Sell wrote:
>  > you must be on packard bell!?
> 
> Rogers.com, a Canadian cable modem provider.
> 
>  > well, I see 2 ways to achieve this:
>  >
>  > 1. Use Nekos SAX interface. This would allow you to build your own
>  > custom hierarchy without ever caring about the w3c interfaces
>  >
>  > 2. Use the DOM interface. There is a property in neko/xerces that
>  > allows you to set the org.w3c.dom.Document implementation
>  > implementation class. That classes methods are called during parsing
>  > to create the individual nodes. Of course this would mean you have to
>  > implement the full org.w3c.dom interfaces.
>  >
>  > The property name is
>  > "http://apache.org/xml/properties/dom/document-class-name"
> 
> Ok, I think I understand what you're proposing.  The first approach 
> seems cleaner (Not use DOM at all) but I've got this nagging thought 
> that not having a DOM would break something important.  I'll think about 
> this see if I can figure out what it would break if we did this.

I am not sure how writing to the DOM from within Javascript is done. If 
those routines depend on the w3c DOM, then would be a problem

> 
> In the meantime, comments from others would be welcome.  This would be a 
> fairly significant change.
>