Document Object Model (DOM)
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a standard interface to access and manipulate structured data.
As the name suggests, it does this by modeling, or representing, a document as a hierarchical tree of objects. A number of different object types are defined in the W3C’s DOM specification; these objects expose methods and attributes that can be used by the application layer to navigate and process the DOM tree, exploit the relationships between the different branches of the tree, and extract information from it.
The W3C’s DOM specification defines a number of different objects to represent the different structures that appear within an XML document. For example, elements are represented by an Element object, whereas ...
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