The Document Object Model
Like nearly all other basic XML technologies, the DOM is a creation of the W3C, which defines the DOM as:
a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The document can be further processed and the results of that processing can be incorporated back into the presented page. [W3C 2002]
What does this mean? Basically, the DOM specifies a set of program routines, or an API. It is not itself an object; but similar to how Java does things, it specifies an interface to the object model, with that interface composed of a number of different methods. Since it is just a specification, there isn't any actual W3C-produced ...
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