The Web's leading standards body has advanced a specification that makes it easier to combine two increasingly popular technologies for building Web documents.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued on Monday the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification as a candidate recommendation, the penultimate phase in the consortium's recommendation process.

The new candidate recommendation marries two established technologies, DOM and XPath, the W3C said.

The DOM, which became a recommendation in 1998 and has undergone several updates since then, is the W3C's application programming interface (API) that lets programs and scripting languages such as JavaScript act on individual elements of a Web page. XPath, first recommended in 1999, is the consortium's way of addressing a specific part of an XML document.

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