On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Magnus Manske < magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
In case you missed it all the way over there in Haifa:-)
http://dirkriehle.com/2011/07/29/technical-report-on-wom-an-object-model-for...
Just want to add -- what I really like about this paper is the notion of an addressable DOM (WOM :) -- being able to navigate through a live object tree in a reasonably defined way is nice. Working directly with a JSON-style map is fairly easy for many things but a) has no error-checking :D and b) is really crap to query and navigate -- especially you have no way to jump to a parent node from a child node with a raw JSONy structure.
So a DOM-like interface on the underlying tree should be *super* helpful.
-- brion