On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Magnus Manske <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In case you missed it all the way over there in Haifa:-)
>>
>>
>> http://dirkriehle.com/2011/07/29/technical-report-on-wom-an-object-model-for-wikitext/
>>
>
>
Just want to add -- what I really like about this paper is the notion of an
addressable DOM (WOM :) -- being able to navigate through a live object tree
in a reasonably defined way is nice. Working directly with a JSON-style map
is fairly easy for many things but a) has no error-checking :D and b) is
really crap to query and navigate -- especially you have no way to jump to a
parent node from a child node with a raw JSONy structure.

So a DOM-like interface on the underlying tree should be *super* helpful.

-- brion
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