On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> The ease of implementing modifications
> should not be a decisive factor in markup language design, and it largely
> depends on the DOM and the scripting language more than on the markup
> language.

The current crop of browsers is a result of heavy investments in
developing programs that render DOM trees according to CSS styling.
Therefore, the DOM representation is of significant practical importance.

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Henri Sivonen
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