XML News from Thursday, April 15, 2004

The W3C DOM working group has released the final Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification and the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification. The load and save specification defines platform and language independent means to parse an XML document to create a DOM Document object, and to serialize DOM Document objects into a file or output stream, something that was previously implementation dependent and accomplished with APIs like JAXP. DOM Level 3 Core adds various new features and methods to the standard DOM classes including: