Hans Aberg writes: > >> What is the DOM? ... > Do you have an URL on this? http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/ > The combination that sounds right to me is > something like a DOM which can compiled to a WWW byte-code, which can DOM gives you programmers access to the parse tree of the document. my document says <foo><bar>hello</bar><overbar><bar>goodbye</bar></overbar></foo> and the DOM will let you get at the bar elements inside overbars. how do you get from there to your byte codes? yes, you need a hard-wired conversion, or a transformation to a language that *is* understood (like PGML, or Voyager HTML) sebastian