Any interest in an HTML DOM in C / C# / similar? (was Re: State of the AJAX Union)

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Christopher Hart wrote:

> Would an "easier" (yet still monumental) starting point be to tackle the DOM
> implementation independent of a JS engine?
[...]
> This seems like a great open source project - it's way too much to handle
> for most individual developers, but I think could be tackled with a
> moderately organized team of folks with a good design laid out in advance.
[...]

So, having pooh-poohed Christopher's proposal, I'm going to make a very 
similar proposal of my own.

Give me some slack, I have the excuse of actually having put in some 
implementation effort on this, and published the code :-) (but not in 
Perl).  And I'm asking with a view to writing some more code myself 
(albeit only a slim chance of that happening).

So, my question / semi-serious proposal is: is anybody here interested in 
collaborating in writing a portable HTML DOM library and DOM builder in a 
language *other* than Perl, with the intent of wrapping it for Perl and 
other languages (Python is my own interest)?

I'm afraid I'm not interested in Perl 6's cross-language support, though. 
If it were me working on it, it would probably have to be C, C++ or C# (or 
possibly Java, or something weirder like Caml).  Cross-language use is one 
reason for my thinking about doing it in one of those languages.  Memory 
usage and execution speed is another.  I lean towards C or C#.


John