Is there a plan to offer DOM interface over VTD?
Well this is another interesting topic. DOM, as a W3C spec, predates XML. DOM’s memory and processing overheads are caused by its excessive use of objects. Furthermore, DOM’s API design is based on the assumptions that objects are the only way to represent nodes. So creating a DOM-compatible interface requires VTD-XML allocate a lot of objects just like DOM, making it difficult, if not impossible, to optimize performance and memory usage and essentially defeating the purpose of VTD in the first place.
