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http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-DOM

Lauren Wood, 
<i="">SoftQuad, Inc.</i><br="">

Vidur Apparao, 
<i="">Netscape</i><br="">Steve Byrne, 
<i="">JavaSoft</i><br="">Mike Champion, 
<i="">ArborText</i><br="">Scott Isaacs, 
<i="">Microsoft</i><br="">Gavin Nicol, 
<i="">Inso EPS</i><br="">Jonathan Robie, 
<i="">Texcel Research</i><br="">Robert Sutor, 
<i="">IBM</i><br="">Chris Wilson, 
<i="">Microsoft</i><br="">Lauren Wood, 
<i="">SoftQuad, Inc.</i><br="">

Vidur Apparao, 
<i="">Netscape</i><br="">Steve Byrne, 
<i="">JavaSoft (until November 1997)</i><br="">Mike Champion, 
<i="">ArborText, Inc.</i><br="">Scott Isaacs, 
<i="">Microsoft (until January, 1998)</i><br="">Arnaud Le Hors, 
<i="">W3C</i><br="">Gavin Nicol, 
<i="">Inso EPS</i><br="">Jonathan Robie, 
<i="">Texcel Research</i><br="">Peter Sharpe, 
<i="">SoftQuad, Inc.</i><br="">Bill Smith, 
<i="">Sun (after November 1997)</i><br="">Jared Sorensen, 
<i="">Novell</i><br="">Robert Sutor, 
<i="">IBM</i><br="">Ray Whitmer, 
<i="">iMall</i><br="">Chris Wilson, 
<i="">Microsoft (after January, 1998)</i><br="">
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This specification defines Level 1 of the Document Object 
 Model, a
	platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow
	programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the
	content, structure and style of documents. The Document Object
	Model provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML
	and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can
	be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and
	manipulating them. Vendors can support the DOM as an interface
	to their proprietary data structures and APIs, and content
	authors can write to the standard DOM interfaces rather than
	product-specific APIs, thus increasing interoperability on the
	Web.
The goal of the DOM specification is to define a programmatic
	interface for XML and HTML. The Level 1 DOM specification is separated
	into two parts: Core and HTML. The Level 1 Core DOM
	specification provides a low-level set of fundamental interfaces that can
	represent any structured document, as well as defining extended interfaces 
	for representing an XML document. These extended XML interfaces need not be
	implemented by a DOM implementation that only provides access to
	HTML documents; all of the fundamental interfaces in the Core 
 document must
	be implemented. A compliant DOM implementation that implements the 
 extended XML 
	interfaces is required to also implement the fundamental Core
	interfaces, but not the HTML interfaces.
	The Level 1 HTML specification provides additional, higher-level 
	interfaces that are used with the fundamental interfaces defined in
 the Level 1 Core specification to provide a more convenient 
 view of an HTML document. 
	A compliant implementation of the HTML DOM will implement all 
	of the fundamental Core interfaces as well as the
	HTML interfaces.


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