   From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> Date: Tue, 18
Nov 2008 05:24:46 -0800 Message-ID:
<4922C21E.3010201@metalab.unc.edu> To: Henri Sivonen
<hsivonen@iki.fi> Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Ian
Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>,
public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org  Henri Sivonen
wrote:  > This means that agents that do not support scripting
may use a different  > object model. For example, it's
conforming to implement a no-scripting  > agent with XOM as the
internal object model. The Validator.nu HTML  > Parser even
supports XOM out-of-the-box.  As you point out XOM instead of
DOM is not a big leap. They're both tree  model after all. I'm
more concerned about more radical changes like SAX  or other
streaming APIs or document specific data bound models or even
stranger things. Is it plausible to extend the HTML 5 parsing
model to  cover this?  I also strongly question the wisdom of
locking in one of the absolute  worst APIs we have. If there's
one th