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Implementing DOM

Having learned the interfaces, attributes, and methods of DOM, you'll now learn how they can be put to work. To implement them, you obviously need an application that supports DOM. The examples in the previous portion of the book have used one implementation: that of the IE5 DSO, which relies on the Microsoft DOM engine.

The Microsoft DOM Engine

The Microsoft implementation is a fairly accurate one. It has only one glaring fault. It uses camelback notation—rather than lowercase—for the doctype attribute of the DocumentType interface. The DocumentType interface is also meant to have no children. However, the MS engine will allow you use the childNodes() method to build a nodeList of the entities and notations in the ...