Eric Hodges wrote: > > I'm not convinced that a language neutral spec is that important. What does > it give us? I'd rather use an API tailored to the language I'm in, I think.
But that was one of the requirements the DOM WG had to work with. People want to implement and use the DOM in many different languages. And they do. There exist EcmaScript, Java and C++ implementations, but also C, Delphi, Python, Perl ones, etc... Also companies typically don't want their employees to have to learn a different API everytime they switch from one language to another. -- Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group
