> Just when i though I was in control......
>
> I am confused to what is going on i am sorry....
> Are we saying that it is just a way of sharing data and values between
> other programmes.
That would be ONE application of it, Jonathan.
In fact, that's how I'm putting it to use, primarily, here at Lightspan. The
educational Shockwave activities that I'm developing (which are assigned by
teachers to their students) have to report a boatload of gameplay result
data back to our assessment and reporting tools. We're developing about 16
different activities, and each one's reporting requirements are different.
So we settled on XML as the vehicle for the data posted back to the server.
I developed the DOM implementation to facilitate the dynamic creation and
population of XML document trees that contain the varied output data from
the activities. It's how our Shockwave games communicate outcomes to our
back-end tools (that, and a little help from NetLingo <grin>).
But the applications of this DOM implementation certainly aren't limited to
sharing data. Director movies or Projectors or Shockwave applications might
use the DOM to organize hierarchical data internally for their own purposes.
I'm sure I could enumerate a slew of possibilities, but I won't rant any
further about it right now.
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Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
http://www.lightspan.com/
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