Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > On May 19, 6:50 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: >> It's pretty easy to write unmaintainable code that uses the DOM API, >> though. > > I'm finding that at my own expenses... > > Why would anybody want to use the DOM? I suppose the main reason is > that it is one of the most reliable standards around. It might be more > complicated, but that's probably because lots of very smart people > thought about it very carefully and it couldn't be made any simpler. > And hopefully will stand the test of time.
Sorry to say so, but that's nonsense. DOM is not complicated because it contains anything superior - the reason (if any) is that it is formulated as language-agnostic as possible, with the unfortunate result it is rather clumsy to use in all languages. Additionally, it *attempts* to unify APIs in browsers, unfortunately it is only moderately successful. APIs such as ElementTree don't try to burden themselves with the language-agnosticism, and thus are much more powerful. And no, I don't think being language-agnostic is a virtue in an API. Simply because this can never really be reached, and then is questionable anyway. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
