XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

Node

Synopsis

The Node interface is the base interface for every member of a DOM document tree. It exposes attributes common to every type of document object and provides simple methods to retrieve type-specific information without resorting to downcasting. For instance, the attributes list provides access to the Element object’s attributes, but it would have no meaning for a ProcessingInstruction node. (Extracting pseudo-attributes from a processing instruction requires your application to parse the contents of the processing instruction.)

This interface also exposes all methods for querying, inserting, and removing objects from the document hierarchy. The Node interface makes it easier to build general-purpose tree-manipulation routines that are not dependent on specific document element types.

Attributes

The following attributes provide information about where the Node object is located within the document tree. These attributes are read-only, and methods are provided for inserting and removing nodes within the document tree.