Aaron Gaudio wrote, > Specifically, I'd like the ability for various applications to > navigate/modify a DOM structure trasnparent to network and process, > using the standard IDL (and hence, CORBA) provided by W3 for the DOM. > Are there any existing libraries that allow this in Linux? I don't think there are any DOM implementations on _any_ platform which can be usefully exported via CORBA. The W3C DOM WG only used CORBA IDL as a language-neutral API specification language, and there wasn't any serious expectation that the IDL would be used as IDL. If you look closely you'll notice that the official target-language bindings (which are published alongside the IDL in the DOM REC) don't exactly match what you'd expect to get if you ran the offical IDL through an IDL compiler. In part this was because there were a few things the WG needed which went beyond what can be specified in IDL, and in part because they wanted to make the bindings a little more idiomatic for the target languages. I forget the exact details ... Even if this wasn't the case, the official IDL would be pretty hopeless for remote use: it's _much_ too fine-grained. I believe that the OMG did some work on a DOM-like IDL which would actually be usable, but I've no idea if that ever saw the light of day. If you're wondering why on earth the WG did things this way, bear in mind that this was all going on at the height of the browser/Java wars: the WG was attempting to keep all the major players on board and not alienate any of them by making any firm commitment to _any_ particular host language. As is usual with this kind of committee driven exercise in compromise the end result is something that nobody's particularly happy with. Cheers, Miles
