Lauren Wood is Director of Product Technology at SoftQuad Software Inc. where she
plays a major role in the design of SoftQuad Software's HTML and XML authoring tools,
HoTMetaL
and XMetaL (get it?).
Lauren Wood, chair of the W3C Document Object Model Working Group and one of the
main editors of the DOM spec, described the DOM as
the "glue between XML documents and applications".
DOM Level 2, already on its second Working Draft,
addresses namespaces, CSS stylesheets, event models, filters and iterators, and ranges.
She covered a list of W3C acronyms:
CSS - "simple styling for HTML and XML documents"
RDF - "How do I find [exactly] what I need on the Web?"
XLink - changes are coming; major need to match with XSL query syntax,
since they both want to access, for example the third title in the document
XML Infoset - make sure datamodels exist; expect the first Working Draft very soon
Querying Markup Language - huge interest; the December 1998
Query Languages Workshop drew 98 people and over 60 papers
Lauren pointed out that the May 1999
Netscape Milestone 5
supports XML and the DOM.
[A transcript of this talk is not yet
available online. We will provide a link as soon as one is available.]
