James Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> W3C DOM will never get into core. Waaaaaay to[sic] much overhead. > > Is this already a done deal? I don't have voting priveleges, but has > this been voted down before?
Ant used DOM while building the object tre at one point but was then converted to use SAX directly. See this as a vote against using DOM 8-). What we have been talking about is that you should be able to build projects from a stream of SAX events for example. Given that many of the tools you've described know how to convert a DOM tree into SAX events this wouldn't be a big limitation. Representing a Task as a DOM Node - i.e. using DOM as the object model of Ant has been ruled out for various reasons. The DOM API forces you to implement a big interface we don't need IMHO. Stefan
