On Sat, 12 May 2001, Noel J. Bergman wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Why build yet another proprietary data structure, rather than just use a
> DOM-tree?  That would allow one to leverage existing and coming XML/DOM
> work.

I apologize for being unclear. This was the interface I was suggesting to
the textbox GUI display.

I doubt that it would be easy to make a quick GUI display engine run off
of a DOM tree natively, at least without a lot of additional indexing
structures, so there has to be some other internal format that it gets
mapped to for display. I was suggesting one possible interface to that
format, based on an interface that I already know and appreciate.

IE, I want a better implementation of postscript, not talking about
another propreitary document file format..

But, if somene is coming up with a really powerful DOM format and the
display engine to display for it, please tell me when it's expected to be
done, and what the expected display functionality is. I can't wait!!!


Scott