Glossary of "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification"

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ancestor

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
child

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

A child is an immediate descendant node of a node.
deepest

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

The deepest element is that element which is furthest from the root or document element in a tree model of the document.
descendant

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
document order

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

The term document order has the same meaning as depth first, pre-order traversal, which is equivalent to the order in which the start tags occur in the text representation of the document.
parent

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

A parent is an immediate ancestor node of a node.
sibling

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same parent node.
tokenized

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13)

The description given to various information items (for example, attribute values of various types, but not including the StringType CDATA) after having been processed by the XML processor. The process includes stripping leading and trailing white space, and replacing multiple space characters by one. See the definition of tokenized type.

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