Living documents with XML events (1/4) - exploring XML Living
documents with XML events Most documents today are living
documents in the sense that they are constantly updated and
never finished. With the advent of HTML and Web browsers
documents became also living in that they can interactively
respond to events. Now this kind of life comes to XML documents
with the newly standardized XML event handling... An event is
the manifestation of some asynchronous happening associated with
an element in an XML document, such as a mouse click on some
text element, or an arithmetical error in the value of an
attribute, or one of many other possibilities. In the DOM event
model, an event is dispatched by passing it down the document
tree in the capture phase to the element where the event
occurred (called its target). Subsequently it then may be passed
back up the tree again in the bubbling phase. In general an
event can be responded to at any element in the path (an
observer) in either phase by causing an action, and/