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1 Document Object Model Core

1.1 Overview of the DOM Core Interfaces

1.1.1 The DOM Structure Model

1.1.2 Memory Management

1.1.3 Naming Conventions

1.1.4 Inheritance vs. Flattened Views of the API

1.2 Basic Types

1.2.1 The DOMString Type

1.2.2 The DOMTimeStamp Type

1.2.3 The DOMUserData Type

1.2.4 The DOMObject Type

1.3 General Considerations

1.3.1 String Comparisons in the DOM

1.3.2 DOM URIs

1.3.3 XML Namespaces

1.3.4 Base URIs

1.3.5 Mixed DOM Implementations

1.3.6 DOM Features

1.3.7 Bootstrapping

1.4 Fundamental Interfaces: Core Module

1.5 Extended Interfaces: XML Module

Appendices

A.1 New sections

A.2 Changes to DOM Level 2 Core interfaces and exceptions

A.3 New DOM features

A.4 New types

A.5 New interfaces

A.6 Objects

B Namespaces Algorithms

B.1 Namespace Normalization

B.1.1 Scope of a Binding

B.1.2 Conflicting Namespace Declaration

B.2 Namespace Prefix Lookup

B.3 Default Namespace Lookup

B.4 Namespace URI Lookup

C Infoset Mapping

C.1 Document Node Mapping

C.1.1 Infoset to Document Node

C.1.2 Document Node to Infoset

C.2 Element Node Mapping

C.2.1 Infoset to Element Node

C.2.2 Element Node to Infoset

C.3 Attr Node Mapping

C.3.1 Infoset to Attr Node

C.3.2 Attr Node to Infoset

C.4 ProcessingInstruction Node Mapping

C.4.1 Infoset to ProcessingInstruction Node

C.4.2 ProcessingInstruction Node to Infoset

C.5 EntityReference Node Mapping

C.5.1 Infoset to EntityReference Node

C.5.2 EntityReference Node to Infoset

C.6 Text and CDATASection Nodes Mapping

C.6.1 Infoset to Text Node

C.6.2 Text and CDATASection Nodes to Infoset

C.7 Comment Node Mapping

C.7.1 Infoset to Comment Node

C.7.2 Comment Node to Infoset

C.8 DocumentType Node Mapping

C.8.1 Infoset to DocumentType Node

C.8.2 DocumentType Node to Infoset

C.9 Entity Node Mapping

C.9.1 Infoset to Entity Node

C.9.2 Entity Node to Infoset

C.10 Notation Node Mapping

C.10.1 Infoset to Notation Node

C.10.2 Notation Node to Infoset

D Configuration Settings

D.1 Configuration Scenarios

E Accessing code point boundaries

E.1 Introduction

E.2 Methods

F IDL Definitions

G Java Language Binding

G.1 Java Binding Extension

G.2 Other Core interfaces

H ECMAScript Language Binding

H.1 ECMAScript Binding Extension

H.2 Other Core interfaces

I Acknowledgements

I.1 Production Systems

1 Document Object Model Core

Document Object Model Core

Arnaud Le Hors, IBM; Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C; Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS (for DOM Level 1); Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc. (for DOM Level 1); Mike Champion, Arbortext and Software AG (for DOM Level 1 from November 20, 1997); Steve Byrne, JavaSoft (for DOM Level 1 until November 19, 1997)

This specification defines a set of objects and interfaces for accessing and manipulating document objects. The functionality specified (the Core functionality) is sufficient to allow software developers and Web script authors to access and manipulate parsed HTML [HTML40] and XML [XML] content inside conforming products. The DOM Core API also allows creation and population of a Document object using only DOM API calls. A solution for loading a Document and saving it persistently is proposed in [DOMLS].

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