Re: DOM manipulation functions

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Sunday 23 November 2014 16:18:24 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 2) Due to stupidity on my part I disregarded Chong's advice on how to do
> the DOM manipulation things in shr.el, so we now basically have two DOMs
> in Emacs -- the xml.el one and the one that shr uses.
> 
> I think it would be a good idea if I rewrote shr.el to just use the
> xml.el DOM, like Chong said back then.  This will break any third-party
> code that relies on shr internals, though.

Aren't there three?  I think libxml has its own DOM structure as well or is it 
the same as xml.el?  Because in shr.el the code converts the libxml DOM into 
its own DOM.  But that's just from my memory.

> So: New dom.el, and rewrite shr/eww to depend on dom.el.

I think it would be awesome if we had one unified DOM implementation, which 
could either use libxml (if available) or xml.el (as a fallback) to parse XML.

Regards,
Rüdiger