20.4. Using the DOM API in .NET
The .NET DOM implementation (System.Xml.XmlDocument) supports all of DOM Level 1 and all of DOM Level 2 Core, but with a few minor naming changes. DOM loading is built on top of XmlReader, and DOM serialization is built on XmlWriter.
As mentioned earlier, central to the DOM API is the DOM tree data structure. The tree consists of nodes or elements. All nodes of a typical XML document (elements, processing instructions, attributes, text, comments, and so on) are represented in the DOM tree. Because the DOM tree is built in memory for the entire document, you are free to navigate anywhere in the document (unlike the XmlReader class, which has a forward-only cursor).
The core class that forms the root of this tree ...
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