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+# `dom-persist`
+
+This is a simple way of storing a DOM, either HTML or XML, into the Sqlite database using the D programming language.
+It provides a way to cache all DOM edits in RAM and only persist to the database when flush is called. This provides
+excellent performance and flexibility. DB storage is also at the element granularity providing indexing by ID.