27 September, 2000

Glossary

Editors
Arnaud Le Hors, W3C and IBM
Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc.
Robert S. Sutor, IBM Research (for DOM Level 1)

Several of the following term definitions have been borrowed or modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents. See the links within the definitions for more information.

ancestor
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
A child is an immediate descendant node of a node.
descendant
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."
DOM Level 0
The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally specified) of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape Navigator version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0. In some cases, attributes or methods have been included for reasons of backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
sibling
Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same parent node.
tokenized
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.
XML name
See XML name in the XML specification [XML].