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Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: small xml parser found!
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:45:14 +0000
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> DOM is not an implementation. DOM is an interface. up|down|next is
> Document Object Model. How much it stores in memory is
> an implementation issue. It's on a different level.

it's difficult to implement DOM elements like "previousSibling",
without storing the whole document (or at least information
on all elements encountered so far).