XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Document extensions

The Document interface retains all the existing methods:

					DocumentType      getDoctype();
					DOMImplementation getImplementation();
					Element           getDocumentElement();
					NodeList          getElementsByTagName(String tagName);
					Element           createElement(String tagName)
					throws DOMException;
					DocumentFragment  createDocumentFragment();
					Text              createTextNode(String data);
					Comment           createComment(String data);
					CDATASection      createCDATASection(String data)
					throws DOMException;
					ProcessingInstruction
					createProcessingInstruction(String target,
					String data)
					throws DOMException;
					Attr              createAttribute(String name)
					throws DOMException;
					EntityReference   createEntityReference(String name)
					throws DOMException;
				

But a number of methods have also been added. Mostly, they handle ...