This is a W3C Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested
parties. With the publication of this draft, the DOM Level 2 specification
enters last
call. The last call period will end on October 8, 1999. Comments on this
document are invited and are to be sent to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org. An archive is available at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/.
Comments received during the last call period will be addressed by the
Working Group which will then release an updated draft. Comments from
implementors will then be awaited and will determine whether this
specification can be submitted for Proposed Recommendation.
While this document is in last call, it is still a draft document which may
be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
therefore inappropriate to use it as reference material or to cite it 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 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.
The DOM Level 2 is made of a set of core interfaces to create and manipulate
the structure and contents of a document and a set of optional
modules. These modules contain specialized interfaces dedicated to XML,
HTML, an abstract view, generic stylesheets, Cascading Style Sheets,
Events, traversing the document structure, and a Range object.