Tom Palmer wrote > I heard that W3C was looking at Document builders as a > possible part of DOM Level 3, which has got to be far enough > off that I think a javax package is good enough to build a > standard on. This is true. DOM Level 3 will be looking at API for parsing and document creation. On the other end, writing a DOM document back out as XML source, is also going to be addressed in level 3. There's enough overlap between people on or near the DOM committee and people here that it's safe to assume that the DOM work won't be done in a vacuum. But there are a lot of parser APIs in existance, and it's too early to know anything yet about the eventual outcome. There's a thread going on the public DOM mailing list on the contents of Level 3. See the archive at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/1999OctDec/ -- Andy
