This document is an early release of the Document Object Model Level 2. It
is guaranteed to change; anyone implementing it should realize that we will
not allow ourselves to be restricted by experimental implementations
of Level 2 when deciding whether to change the specifications.
This is a W3C Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested
parties. It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by
other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as
reference material or to cite them as other than "work in
progress". This is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by, or
the consensus of, either W3C or members of the DOM working group.
This document has been produced as part of the W3C DOM Activity. The authors
of this document are the DOM WG members. Different modules of the Document
Object Model have different editors.
This document is for public review. Comments on this document should be sent to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org.
This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2, a platform-
and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically
access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The Document
Object Model Level 2 builds on the Document Object Model Level 1.
This release of the Document Object Model Level 2 has all of the interfaces
that the final version is expected to have. It contains interfaces for creating
a document, importing a node from one document to another, supporting XML
namespaces, associating stylesheets with a document, the Cascading Style Sheets
object model, the Range object model, filters and iterators, and the Events
object model. The DOM WG wants to get feedback on these, and especially on the
two options presented for XML namespaces, so that final decisions can be made
for the DOM Level 2 specification.