Scripting in the Browser: Manipulating the DOM

Building on Older Browser Models The tools for scripting XML in the browser are based on (and still dependent upon) the model created for manipulating HTML with scripts.
Still Catching Up to the Spec Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 is close to supporting the W3C DOM Level 1 specification, but still has plenty of support for mechanisms from IE 4. Netscape's Mozilla project promises a clean DOM-based model, but it isn't quite heere yet.
Lots of missing pieces Making XML truly scriptable is going to require some additional infrastructure, notably a means for identifying scripts that process XML documents.
Tentative experiments While scripting XML in the browser has a bright future, the tools available today are really only a taste. The limitations of the demonstrations to follow are very real today, but will hopefully improve over time.