What Objects should we look at first and what services do we need? (a.k.a. why do we only need to study web pages)
So Web documents are the natural choice but actually this doesn’t say so much as they can have
- Java Applets
- Active X controls
- General helper applications
And “everything” exports itself to the web including Microsoft Word and Macromedia authoring systems
- Actually Microsoft Word is rumored to be moving to XML internal form and “Save as HTML” is a reasonable representation of most Word documents
So we expect dominant model to be Web documents constructed according to W3C DOM