Gdome: The Gnome DOM Engine

Gdome is the Gnome DOM Engine. It promises to create a fully standards-compliant DOM interface. It is based on Daniel Veillard's libxml. Currently, it is being used in Gill, the Gnome implementation of SVG.

Related projects

There are a fair number of projects related to Gdome, including free software implementations of DOM and other interfaces for XML or XML-like trees.

• The Xerces XML parser of the Apache XML effort plans to implement DOM2. Interestingly, there are versions in both C++ and Java.
• David Brownell has created a DOM2 parser in Java. At the time of this writing (11 Jan 2000), it supports all of DOM2 core, as well as Events, MutationEvents, and Traversal.
• The XDBM project looks potentially interesting; it seems to have somewhat similar goals to Gdome.

Links

Here are links directly relating to DOM and the Gdome implementation:

• www-dom mailing list archives.
• Official W3C DOM page.
• Gdome mailing list archives.
• Gdome source in LXR, from Gnome CVS.

Older documents

There's an archive of older documents relating to earlier Gdome designs and plans. They include:

• Plans for world DOMination (27 Mar 1999).
• Design considerations for a Gnome DOM (28 Mar 1999).
• The original Gdome proposal (29 Mar 1999).
• Gdome World DOMination (14 Apr 1999).
• A very rough sketch of Athshe, a potential DOM replacement.