Re: DOM manipulation functions

[Nicolas Richard]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
>
> So: New dom.el, and rewrite shr/eww to depend on dom.el.

Great idea. I always wondered why shr had its own representation.

Please note that there are various existing implementations that might
be worth looking at, including one already named dom.el
(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/dom.el). See
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XmlParser

-- 
Nicolas Richard