Node and Other Generic Interfaces
The Node
interface is the DOM Core class hierarchy’s root. Though never
instantiated directly, it is the root interface of all specific
interfaces, and you can use it to extract information from any object
within a DOM document tree without knowing its actual type. It is
possible to access a document’s complete structure and content using
only the methods and properties exposed by the Node
interface. As shown in Table 19-1, this interface
contains information about the type, location, name, and value of the
corresponding underlying document data.
Name | Type | Read-only | 2.0 | 3.0 |
Attributes | ||||
attributes | NamedNodeMap | |||
baseURI | DOMString | |||
childNodes | NodeList | |||
firstChild | Node | |||
lastChild | Node | |||
localName | DOMString | |||
namespaceURI | DOMString | |||
nextSibling |
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