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The XML Document Object Model (DOM) class is an in-memory representation of an XML document. The DOM allows you to programmatically read, manipulate, and modify an XML document. The XmlReader class also reads XML; however, it provides non-cached, forward-only, read-only access. This means that there are no capabilities to edit the values of an attribute or content of an element, or the ability to insert and remove nodes with the XmlReader. Editing is the primary function of the DOM. It is the common and structured way that XML data is represented in memory, although the actual XML data is stored in a linear fashion when in a file or coming in from another object. The following is XML data.

Input

The following illustration shows how memory is structured when this XML data is read into the DOM structure.

XML document structure

Within the XML document structure, each circle in this illustration represents a node, which is called an XmlNode object. The XmlNode object is the basic object in the DOM tree. The XmlDocument class, which extends XmlNode, supports methods for performing operations on the document as a whole (for example, loading it into memory or saving the XML to a file. In addition, XmlDocument provides a means to view and manipulate the nodes in the entire XML document. Both XmlNode and XmlDocument have performance and usability enhancements and have methods and properties to:

  • Access and modify nodes specific to the DOM, such as element nodes, entity reference nodes, and so on.

  • Retrieve entire nodes, in addition to the information the node contains, such as the text in an element node.

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    If an application does not require the structure or editing capabilities provided by the DOM, the XmlReader and XmlWriter classes provide non-cached, forward-only stream access to XML. For more information, see XmlReader and XmlWriter.

Node objects have a set of methods and properties, as well as basic and well-defined characteristics. Some of these characteristics are:

  • Nodes have a single parent node, a parent node being a node directly above them. The only nodes that do not have a parent is the Document root, as it is the top-level node and contains the document itself and document fragments.

  • Most nodes can have multiple child nodes, which are nodes directly below them. The following is a list of node types that can have child nodes.

    • Document

    • DocumentFragment

    • EntityReference

    • Element

    • Attribute

    The XmlDeclaration, Notation, Entity, CDATASection, Text, Comment, ProcessingInstruction, and DocumentType nodes do not have child nodes.

  • Nodes that are at the same level, represented in the diagram by the book and pubinfo nodes, are siblings.

One characteristic of the DOM is how it handles attributes. Attributes are not nodes that are part of the parent, child, and sibling relationships. Attributes are considered a property of the element node and are made up of a name and a value pair. For example, if you have XML data consisting of format='dollar' associated with the element price, the word format is the name, and the value of the format attribute is dollar. To retrieve the format='dollar' attribute of the price node, you call the GetAttribute method when the cursor is located at the price element node. For more information, see Accessing Attributes in the DOM.

As XML is read into memory, nodes are created. However, not all nodes are the same type. An element in XML has different rules and syntax than a processing instruction. Therefore, as various data is read, a node type is assigned to each node. This node type determines the characteristics and functionality of the node.

For more information on the types of nodes generated in memory, see Types of XML Nodes. For more information on the objects created in the node tree, see Mapping the Object Hierarchy to XML Data.

Microsoft has extended the APIs that are available in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) DOM Level 1 and Level 2 to make it easier to work with an XML document. While fully supporting the W3C standards, the additional classes, methods, and properties add functionality beyond what can be done using the W3C XML DOM. New classes enable you to access relational data, giving you methods for synchronizing with ADO.NET data, simultaneously exposing data as XML. For more information, see Synchronizing a DataSet with an XmlDataDocument.

The DOM is most useful for reading XML data into memory to change its structure, to add or remove nodes, or to modify the data held by a node as in the text contained by an element. However, other classes are available that are faster than the DOM in other scenarios. For fast, non-cached, forward-only stream access to XML, use the XmlReader and XmlWriter. If you need random access with a cursor model and XPath, use the XPathNavigator class.

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The Document Object Model (DOM) connects web pages to scripts or programming languages by representing the structure of a document—such as the HTML representing a web page—in memory. Usually that means JavaScript, although modelling HTML, SVG, or XML documents as objects is not part of the JavaScript language, as such.

The DOM represents a document with a logical tree. Each branch of the tree ends in a node, and each node contains objects. DOM methods allow programmatic access to the tree; with them you can change the document's structure, style, or content. Nodes can also have event handlers attached to them; once an event is triggered, the event handlers get executed.

To learn more about what the DOM is and how it represents documents, see our article introduction to the DOM.

DOM interfaces

  • ChildNode
  • DOMError
  • Selection
  • TextDecoder
  • TextEncoder
  • XMLDocument

Obsolete DOM interfaces

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The Document Object Model has been highly simplified. To achieve this, the following interfaces present in the different DOM level 3 or earlier specifications have been removed. It is uncertain whether some may be reintroduced in the future or not, but for the time being they should be considered obsolete and should be avoided:

HTML DOM

A document containing HTML is described using the Document interface, which is extended by the HTML specification to include various HTML-specific features. In particular, the Element interface is enhanced to become HTMLElement and various subclasses, each representing one of (or a family of closely related) elements.

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The HTML DOM API provides access to various browser features such as tabs and windows, CSS styles and stylesheets, browser history, and so forth. These interfaces and discussed further in the HTML DOM API documentation.

SVG interfaces

SVG element interfaces

  • SVGAltGlyphElement
  • SVGAltGlyphDefElement
  • SVGAltGlyphItemElement
  • SVGAnimateColorElement
  • SVGColorProfileElement
  • SVGFontElement
  • SVGFontFaceElement
  • SVGFontFaceFormatElement
  • SVGFontFaceNameElement
  • SVGFontFaceSrcElement
  • SVGFontFaceUriElement
  • SVGGlyphElement
  • SVGGlyphRefElement
  • SVGHatchElement
  • SVGHatchpathElement
  • SVGHKernElement
  • SVGMarkerElement
  • SVGMeshElement
  • SVGMeshGradientElement
  • SVGMeshpatchElement
  • SVGMeshrowElement
  • SVGMissingGlyphElement
  • SVGSolidcolorElement
  • SVGTRefElement
  • SVGUnknownElement
  • SVGVKernElement

SVG data type interfaces

Here are the DOM APIs for data types used in the definitions of SVG properties and attributes.

Note: Starting in Gecko 5.0, the following SVG-related DOM interfaces representing lists of objects are now indexable and can be accessed; in addition, they have a length property indicating the number of items in the lists: SVGLengthList, SVGNumberList, SVGPathSegList, and SVGPointList.

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Static type

  • SVGColor
  • SVGICCColor
  • SVGMatrix
  • SVGPathSeg
  • SVGPathSegClosePath
  • SVGPathSegMovetoAbs
  • SVGPathSegMovetoRel
  • SVGPathSegLinetoAbs
  • SVGPathSegLinetoRel
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicAbs
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicRel
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticAbs
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticRel
  • SVGPathSegArcAbs
  • SVGPathSegArcRel
  • SVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalAbs
  • SVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalRel
  • SVGPathSegLinetoVerticalAbs
  • SVGPathSegLinetoVerticalRel
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothAbs
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothRel
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothAbs
  • SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothRel
  • SVGPathSegList
  • SVGPoint
  • SVGPointList
  • SVGRect

Animated type

  • SVGAnimatedPathData

SMIL related interfaces

Other SVG interfaces

  • SVGColorProfileRule
  • SVGCSSRule
  • SVGException
  • SVGExternalResourcesRequired
  • SVGLangSpace
  • SVGLocatable
  • SVGRenderingIntent
  • SVGStylable
  • SVGTransformable
  • SVGViewSpec
  • SVGZoomEvent

Specifications

SpecificationStatusComment
DOMLiving Standard
DOM4Obsolete
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core SpecificationObsolete
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core SpecificationObsoleteg
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 SpecificationObsoleteInitial definition

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