# gdome

**Repository Path**: mirrors_chromium_gitlab_gnome/gdome

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: gdome
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2021-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2025-12-14

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## README

Gdome, the Gnome DOM Engine

This package contains an enhanced implementation of the W3C DOM Level
1 specification. For more information about Gdome and its place in the
Gnome world DOMination project, see
http://www.levien.com/gnome/domination.html . For technical
discussions, see http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/ .

The scope of Gdome is to hold the document tree and provide a number
of interfaces to it, including a simple C-language binding and a
standards-compliant CORBA interface. Enhancements to the Level 1 DOM
comprise: sliding DOM, events (based on Level 2 draft), and an
interface for custom implementations for part of the document tree.

The custom implementation stuff is a later priority than getting basic
DOM and event functionality working - the goal is to get a prototype
DOMination application finished.

Other components of the DOMination architecture, such as rendering
contexts, rendering objects, and generic canvas-based objects, are
outside the scope of Gdome, and will be coming soon to a CVS
repository near you.


Refcounting

A quick note: a number of methods return a value that is usually
ignored. A good example is Node::appendChild, which simply returns the
newChild argument. Do not simply ignore the return value, as this will
leak memory. Unref it.

   Thus, to append a newly created element to a node, the following
code sequence is correct and nonleaky:

  GdomeNode *node;
  GdomeDocument *doc;
  GdomeElement *new_el;
  GdomeNode *result;

  new_el = gdome_doc_createElement (doc, element_name, &exc);
  result = gdome_n_appendChild (doc, (GdomeNode *)new_el, &exc);
  gdome_n_unref (result);
  gdome_el_unref (new_el);

   Methods affected include Node::appendChild, Node::insertBefore,
Node::replaceChild, and Node::removeChild.