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Practical Uses of the SOM
The SOM is primarily used for reading information, not for writing information. SAX and the DOM provide the tools for writing information to a document. The following topics provide examples of applications that use the SOM.
The following topics provide examples of applications that could be created with the SOM, but would be more easily created with SAX or the DOM. The purpose of these examples is to provide ideas that can be expanded on in other situations.