Working Draft

Date: Apr. 19, 2001
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Requirements/
Source Author or Organization: W3C

This working draft lists requirements for the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3. The DOM is an interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access the content, structure and style of documents. It provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them. The Level 3 requirements appear to answer the requests, especially from database developers, for the definition of standard APIs for storing XML. DOM Level 3 will provide " ... an API for loading XML source documents into a DOM representation and for saving a DOM representation as a XML document".