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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>There is a node tree in X3DJSAIL. There’s two parts to X3DJSAIL, jsail (the implementation) and sai (the interface)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:39 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:andreasplesch@gmail.com">Andreas Plesch</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [x3d-public] setUSE in X3DJSAIL. Impact on X3DJSONLD.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As far as I know, there is no DOM in X3DJSAIL except for processing XML input into the “scene” through reflection as defined with typesafe instances of concrete classes (not in SAI, but likely implementations of SAI). XML output is done with strings.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:andreasplesch@gmail.com">Andreas Plesch</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:35 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [x3d-public] setUSE in X3DJSAIL. Impact on X3DJSONLD.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt'><br>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:18:53 -0400<br>From: John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>><br><br>As far as I know, there is no ?parents? property on a node in DOM, so this whole discussion is rather moot until that changes. If you don?t have parents, then there?s no way to get to one or more of your parents from a child node (not necessarily needed, but?)<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is parentNode:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/parentNode">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/parentNode</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But the property is readonly because there can be only one parent for a node.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>x3dom/cobweb do not use the DOM for storing the x3d scene graph. They use javascript objects, for this reason among others. Additionally, there is a SAI service importDOM (or so) to help with bridging.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am not sure if I am following the discussion completely. One key seems to be to be careful in distinguishing in nomenclature (and praxis) the abstract scene graph (including the runtime state) - accessible via standardized SAI - from the (XML) node tree. Is perhaps X3DJSAIL a bit of a misnomer somewhat conflating SAI services with node tree manipulation ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Andreas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>