[W3C] Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification Version 1.0 W3C Working Draft 09 April 2002 This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20020409 ( PostScript file , PDF file , plain text , ZIP file , single HTML file) Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core Previous version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20020114 Editors: Arnaud Le Hors, IBM Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C, WG Chair Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc. (WG Chair emerata, for DOM Level 1 and 2) Gavin Nicol, Inso EPS (for DOM Level 1) Jonathan Robie, Texcel Research and Software AG (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) Copyright ©2002 W3C® (MIT, INRIA, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract This specification defines the Document Object Model Core Level 3, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The Document Object Model Core Level 3 builds on the Document Object Model Core Level 2 [DOM Level 2 Core]. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C. This document contains the Document Object Model Level 3 Core specification. This is a Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested parties. It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress". This is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by, or the consensus of, either W3C or members of the DOM Working Group. Comments on this document are invited and are to be sent to the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org. An archive is available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/. This document has been produced as part of the W3C DOM Activity. The authors of this document are the DOM Working Group members. A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR. Table of contents * Expanded Table of Contents * Copyright Notice * What is the Document Object Model? * 1. Document Object Model Core * Appendix A: Changes * Appendix B: Namespaces Algorithms * Appendix C: Accessing code point boundaries * Appendix D: IDL Definitions * Appendix E: Java Language Binding * Appendix F: ECMAScript Language Binding * Appendix G: Acknowledgements * Glossary * References * Index 09 April 2002 Expanded Table of Contents * Expanded Table of Contents * Copyright Notice o W3C Document Copyright Notice and License o W3C Software Copyright Notice and License * What is the Document Object Model? o Introduction o What the Document Object Model is o What the Document Object Model is not o Where the Document Object Model came from o Entities and the DOM Core o Conformance o DOM Interfaces and DOM Implementations * 1. Document Object Model Core o 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 + 1.1.5. The DOMString type + 1.1.6. The DOMTimeStamp type + 1.1.7. The DOMUserData type + 1.1.8. The DOMObject type + 1.1.9. String comparisons in the DOM + 1.1.10. XML Namespaces + 1.1.11. Mixed DOM implementations + 1.1.12. Bootstrapping o 1.2. Fundamental Interfaces o 1.3. Extended Interfaces * Appendix A: Changes o A.1. Changes between DOM Level 2 Core and DOM Level 3 Core o A.2. Changes between DOM Level 1 Core and DOM Level 2 Core + A.2.1. Changes to DOM Level 1 Core interfaces and exceptions + A.2.2. New features * Appendix B: Namespaces Algorithms o B.1. Namespace normalization o B.2. Namespace Prefix Lookup o B.3. Default Namespace Lookup o B.4. Namespace URI Lookup * Appendix C: Accessing code point boundaries o C.1. Introduction o C.2. Methods * Appendix D: IDL Definitions * Appendix E: Java Language Binding o E.1. Java Binding Extension o E.2. Other Core interfaces * Appendix F: ECMAScript Language Binding o F.1. ECMAScript Binding Extension o F.2. Other Core interfaces * Appendix G: Acknowledgements o G.1. 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Title to copyright in this software and any associated documentation will at all times remain with copyright holders. 09 April 2002 What is the Document Object Model? Editors: Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc. (for DOM Level 2) Jonathan Robie, Texcel (for DOM Level 1) Introduction The Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) for valid HTML and well-formed XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. In the DOM specification, the term "document" is used in the broad sense - increasingly, XML is being used as a way of representing many different kinds of information that may be stored in diverse systems, and much of this would traditionally be seen as data rather than as documents. Nevertheless, XML presents this data as documents, and the DOM may be used to manage this data. With the Document Object Model, programmers can build documents, navigate their structure, and add, modify, or delete elements and content. Anything found in an HTML or XML document can be accessed, changed, deleted, or added using the Document Object Model, with a few exceptions - in particular, the DOM interfaces for the XML internal and external subsets have not yet been specified. As a W3C specification, one important objective for the Document Object Model is to provide a standard programming interface that can be used in a wide variety of environments and applications. The DOM is designed to be used with any programming language. In order to provide a precise, language-independent specification of the DOM interfaces, we have chosen to define the specifications in Object Management Group (OMG) IDL [OMG IDL], as defined in the CORBA 2.3.1 specification [CORBA]. In addition to the OMG IDL specification, we provide language bindings for Java [Java] and ECMAScript [ECMAScript] (an industry-standard scripting language based on JavaScript [JavaScript] and JScript [JScript]). Note: OMG IDL is used only as a language-independent and implementation-neutral way to specify interfaces. Various other IDLs could have been used ([COM], [Java IDL], [MIDL], ...). In general, IDLs are designed for specific computing environments. The Document Object Model can be implemented in any computing environment, and does not require the object binding runtimes generally associated with such IDLs. What the Document Object Model is The DOM is a programming API for documents. It is based on an object structure that closely resembles the structure of the documents it models. For instance, consider this table, taken from an HTML document:
Shady Grove Aeolian
Over the River, Charlie Dorian
A graphical representation of the DOM of the example table is: --------------------------------------------------------------------- [graphical representation of the DOM of the example table] --------------------------------------------------------------------- graphical representation of the DOM of the example table --------------------------------------------------------------------- In the DOM, documents have a logical structure which is very much like a tree; to be more precise, which is like a "forest" or "grove", which can contain more than one tree. Each document contains zero or one doctype nodes, one document element node, and zero or more comments or processing instructions; the document element serves as the root of the element tree for the document. However, the DOM does not specify that documents must be implemented as a tree or a grove, nor does it specify how the relationships among objects be implemented. The DOM is a logical model that may be implemented in any convenient manner. In this specification, we use the term structure model to describe the tree-like representation of a document. We also use the term "tree" when referring to the arrangement of those information items which can be reached by using "tree-walking" methods; (this does not include attributes). One important property of DOM structure models is structural isomorphism: if any two Document Object Model implementations are used to create a representation of the same document, they will create the same structure model, in accordance with the XML Information Set [XML Information set]. Note: There may be some variations depending on the parser being used to build the DOM. For instance, the DOM may not contain white spaces in element content if the parser discards them. The name "Document Object Model" was chosen because it is an "object model" in the traditional object oriented design sense: documents are modeled using objects, and the model encompasses not only the structure of a document, but also the behavior of a document and the objects of which it is composed. In other words, the nodes in the above diagram do not represent a data structure, they represent objects, which have functions and identity. As an object model, the DOM identifies: * the interfaces and objects used to represent and manipulate a document * the semantics of these interfaces and objects - including both behavior and attributes * the relationships and collaborations among these interfaces and objects The structure of SGML documents has traditionally been represented by an abstract data model, not by an object model. In an abstract data model, the model is centered around the data. In object oriented programming languages, the data itself is encapsulated in objects that hide the data, protecting it from direct external manipulation. The functions associated with these objects determine how the objects may be manipulated, and they are part of the object model. What the Document Object Model is not This section is designed to give a more precise understanding of the DOM by distinguishing it from other systems that may seem to be like it. * The Document Object Model is not a binary specification. DOM programs written in the same language binding will be source code compatible across platforms, but the DOM does not define any form of binary interoperability. * The Document Object Model is not a way of persisting objects to XML or HTML. Instead of specifying how objects may be represented in XML, the DOM specifies how XML and HTML documents are represented as objects, so that they may be used in object oriented programs. * The Document Object Model is not a set of data structures; it is an object model that specifies interfaces. Although this document contains diagrams showing parent/child relationships, these are logical relationships defined by the programming interfaces, not representations of any particular internal data structures. * The Document Object Model does not define what information in a document is relevant or how information in a document is structured. For XML, this is specified by the XML Information Set [XML Information set]. The DOM is simply an API to this information set. * The Document Object Model, despite its name, is not a competitor to the Component Object Model [COM]. COM, like CORBA, is a language independent way to specify interfaces and objects; the DOM is a set of interfaces and objects designed for managing HTML and XML documents. The DOM may be implemented using language-independent systems like COM or CORBA; it may also be implemented using language-specific bindings like the Java or ECMAScript bindings specified in this document. Where the Document Object Model came from The DOM originated as a specification to allow JavaScript scripts and Java programs to be portable among Web browsers. "Dynamic HTML" was the immediate ancestor of the Document Object Model, and it was originally thought of largely in terms of browsers. However, when the DOM Working Group was formed at W3C, it was also joined by vendors in other domains, including HTML or XML editors and document repositories. Several of these vendors had worked with SGML before XML was developed; as a result, the DOM has been influenced by SGML Groves and the HyTime standard. Some of these vendors had also developed their own object models for documents in order to provide an API for SGML/XML editors or document repositories, and these object models have also influenced the DOM. Entities and the DOM Core In the fundamental DOM interfaces, there are no objects representing entities. Numeric character references, and references to the pre-defined entities in HTML and XML, are replaced by the single character that makes up the entity's replacement. For example, in:

This is a dog & a cat

the "&" will be replaced by the character "&", and the text in the P element will form a single continuous sequence of characters. Since numeric character references and pre-defined entities are not recognized as such in CDATA sections, or in the SCRIPT and STYLE elements in HTML, they are not replaced by the single character they appear to refer to. If the example above were enclosed in a CDATA section, the "&" would not be replaced by "&"; neither would the

be recognized as a start tag. The representation of general entities, both internal and external, are defined within the extended (XML) interfaces of Document Object Model Core. Note: When a DOM representation of a document is serialized as XML or HTML text, applications will need to check each character in text data to see if it needs to be escaped using a numeric or pre-defined entity. Failing to do so could result in invalid HTML or XML. Also, implementations should be aware of the fact that serialization into a character encoding ("charset") that does not fully cover ISO 10646 may fail if there are characters in markup or CDATA sections that are not present in the encoding. Conformance This section explains the different levels of conformance to DOM Level 3. DOM Level 3 consists of ? modules. It is possible to conform to DOM Level 3, or to a DOM Level 3 module. An implementation is DOM Level 3 conformant if it supports the Core module defined in this document (see Fundamental Interfaces). An implementation conforms to a DOM Level 3 module if it supports all the interfaces for that module and the associated semantics. Here is the complete list of DOM Level 3.0 modules and the features used by them. Feature names are case-insensitive. Core module defines the feature "Core". XML module Defines the feature "XML". Events module defines the feature "Events" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. User interface Events module defines the feature "UIEvents" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. Mouse Events module defines the feature "MouseEvents" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. Text Events module defines the feature "TextEvents" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. Mutation Events module defines the feature "MutationEvents" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. HTML Events module defines the feature "HTMLEvents" in [DOM Level 3 Events]. Load and Save module defines the feature "LS" in [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save]. Abstract Schemas Editing module defines the feature "AS-EDIT" in [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save]. XPath module defines the feature "XPath" in [DOM Level 3 XPath]. A DOM implementation must not return true to the hasFeature(feature, version) method of the DOMImplementation interface for that feature unless the implementation conforms to that module. The version number for all features used in DOM Level 3.0 is "3.0". DOM Interfaces and DOM Implementations The DOM specifies interfaces which may be used to manage XML or HTML documents. It is important to realize that these interfaces are an abstraction - much like "abstract base classes" in C++, they are a means of specifying a way to access and manipulate an application's internal representation of a document. Interfaces do not imply a particular concrete implementation. Each DOM application is free to maintain documents in any convenient representation, as long as the interfaces shown in this specification are supported. Some DOM implementations will be existing programs that use the DOM interfaces to access software written long before the DOM specification existed. Therefore, the DOM is designed to avoid implementation dependencies; in particular, 1. Attributes defined in the IDL do not imply concrete objects which must have specific data members - in the language bindings, they are translated to a pair of get()/set() functions, not to a data member. Read-only attributes have only a get() function in the language bindings. 2. DOM applications may provide additional interfaces and objects not found in this specification and still be considered DOM conformant. 3. Because we specify interfaces and not the actual objects that are to be created, the DOM cannot know what constructors to call for an implementation. In general, DOM users call the createX() methods on the Document class to create document structures, and DOM implementations create their own internal representations of these structures in their implementations of the createX() functions. The Level 2 interfaces were extended to provide both Level 2 and Level 3 functionality. DOM implementations in languages other than Java or ECMAScript may choose bindings that are appropriate and natural for their language and run time environment. For example, some systems may need to create a Document3 class which inherits from a Document class and contains the new methods and attributes. DOM Level 3 does not specify multithreading mechanisms. 09 April 2002 1. Document Object Model Core Editors: 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) Table of contents * 1.1. Overview of the DOM Core Interfaces o 1.1.1. The DOM Structure Model o 1.1.2. Memory Management o 1.1.3. Naming Conventions o 1.1.4. Inheritance vs. Flattened Views of the API o 1.1.5. The DOMString type + DOMString o 1.1.6. The DOMTimeStamp type + DOMTimeStamp o 1.1.7. The DOMUserData type + DOMUserData o 1.1.8. The DOMObject type + DOMObject o 1.1.9. String comparisons in the DOM o 1.1.10. XML Namespaces o 1.1.11. Mixed DOM implementations o 1.1.12. Bootstrapping * 1.2. Fundamental Interfaces o DOMException, ExceptionCode, DOMImplementationSource, DOMImplementation, DocumentFragment, Document, Node, NodeList, NamedNodeMap, CharacterData, Attr, Element, Text, Comment, UserDataHandler, DOMError, DOMErrorHandler, DOMLocator * 1.3. Extended Interfaces o CDATASection, DocumentType, Notation, Entity, EntityReference, ProcessingInstruction 1.1. Overview of the DOM Core Interfaces This section defines a set of objects and interfaces for accessing and manipulating document objects. The functionality specified in this section (the Core functionality) is sufficient to allow software developers and web script authors to access and manipulate parsed HTML and XML content inside conforming products. The DOM Core API also allows creation and population of a Document object using only DOM API calls; loading a Document and saving it persistently is left to the product that implements the DOM API. 1.1.1. The DOM Structure Model The DOM presents documents as a hierarchy of Node objects that also implement other, more specialized interfaces. Some types of nodes may have child nodes of various types, and others are leaf nodes that cannot have anything below them in the document structure. For XML and HTML, the node types, and which node types they may have as children, are as follows: * Document -- Element (maximum of one), ProcessingInstruction, Comment, DocumentType (maximum of one) * DocumentFragment -- Element, ProcessingInstruction, Comment, Text, CDATASection, EntityReference * DocumentType -- no children * EntityReference -- Element, ProcessingInstruction, Comment, Text, CDATASection, EntityReference * Element -- Element, Text, Comment, ProcessingInstruction, CDATASection, EntityReference * Attr -- Text, EntityReference * ProcessingInstruction -- no children * Comment -- no children * Text -- no children * CDATASection -- no children * Entity -- Element, ProcessingInstruction, Comment, Text, CDATASection, EntityReference * Notation -- no children The DOM also specifies a NodeList interface to handle ordered lists of Nodes, such as the children of a Node, or the elements returned by the getElementsByTagName method of the Element interface, and also a NamedNodeMap interface to handle unordered sets of nodes referenced by their name attribute, such as the attributes of an Element. NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects in the DOM are live; that is, changes to the underlying document structure are reflected in all relevant NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects. For example, if a DOM user gets a NodeList object containing the children of an Element, then subsequently adds more children to that element (or removes children, or modifies them), those changes are automatically reflected in the NodeList, without further action on the user's part. Likewise, changes to a Node in the tree are reflected in all references to that Node in NodeList and NamedNodeMap objects. Finally, the interfaces Text, Comment, and CDATASection all inherit from the CharacterData interface. 1.1.2. Memory Management Most of the APIs defined by this specification are interfaces rather than classes. That means that an implementation need only expose methods with the defined names and specified operation, not implement classes that correspond directly to the interfaces. This allows the DOM APIs to be implemented as a thin veneer on top of legacy applications with their own data structures, or on top of newer applications with different class hierarchies. This also means that ordinary constructors (in the Java or C++ sense) cannot be used to create DOM objects, since the underlying objects to be constructed may have little relationship to the DOM interfaces. The conventional solution to this in object-oriented design is to define factory methods that create instances of objects that implement the various interfaces. Objects implementing some interface "X" are created by a "createX()" method on the Document interface; this is because all DOM objects live in the context of a specific Document. The Core DOM APIs are designed to be compatible with a wide range of languages, including both general-user scripting languages and the more challenging languages used mostly by professional programmers. Thus, the DOM APIs need to operate across a variety of memory management philosophies, from language bindings that do not expose memory management to the user at all, through those (notably Java) that provide explicit constructors but provide an automatic garbage collection mechanism to automatically reclaim unused memory, to those (especially C/C++) that generally require the programmer to explicitly allocate object memory, track where it is used, and explicitly free it for re-use. To ensure a consistent API across these platforms, the DOM does not address memory management issues at all, but instead leaves these for the implementation. Neither of the explicit language bindings defined by the DOM API (for ECMAScript and Java) require any memory management methods, but DOM bindings for other languages (especially C or C++) may require such support. These extensions will be the responsibility of those adapting the DOM API to a specific language, not the DOM Working Group. 1.1.3. Naming Conventions While it would be nice to have attribute and method names that are short, informative, internally consistent, and familiar to users of similar APIs, the names also should not clash with the names in legacy APIs supported by DOM implementations. Furthermore, both OMG IDL and ECMAScript have significant limitations in their ability to disambiguate names from different namespaces that make it difficult to avoid naming conflicts with short, familiar names. So, DOM names tend to be long and descriptive in order to be unique across all environments. The Working Group has also attempted to be internally consistent in its use of various terms, even though these may not be common distinctions in other APIs. For example, the DOM API uses the method name "remove" when the method changes the structural model, and the method name "delete" when the method gets rid of something inside the structure model. The thing that is deleted is not returned. The thing that is removed may be returned, when it makes sense to return it. 1.1.4. Inheritance vs. Flattened Views of the API The DOM Core APIs present two somewhat different sets of interfaces to an XML/HTML document: one presenting an "object oriented" approach with a hierarchy of inheritance, and a "simplified" view that allows all manipulation to be done via the Node interface without requiring casts (in Java and other C-like languages) or query interface calls in COM environments. These operations are fairly expensive in Java and COM, and the DOM may be used in performance-critical environments, so we allow significant functionality using just the Node interface. Because many other users will find the inheritance hierarchy easier to understand than the "everything is a Node" approach to the DOM, we also support the full higher-level interfaces for those who prefer a more object-oriented API. In practice, this means that there is a certain amount of redundancy in the API. The Working Group considers the "inheritance" approach the primary view of the API, and the full set of functionality on Node to be "extra" functionality that users may employ, but that does not eliminate the need for methods on other interfaces that an object-oriented analysis would dictate. (Of course, when the O-O analysis yields an attribute or method that is identical to one on the Node interface, we don't specify a completely redundant one.) Thus, even though there is a generic nodeName attribute on the Node interface, there is still a tagName attribute on the Element interface; these two attributes must contain the same value, but the it is worthwhile to support both, given the different constituencies the DOM API must satisfy. 1.1.5. The DOMString type To ensure interoperability, the DOM specifies the following: Type Definition DOMString A DOMString is a sequence of 16-bit units. IDL Definition valuetype DOMString sequence; Applications must encode DOMString using UTF-16 (defined in [Unicode 2.0] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]). The UTF-16 encoding was chosen because of its widespread industry practice. Note that for both HTML and XML, the document character set (and therefore the notation of numeric character references) is based on UCS [ISO/IEC 10646]. A single numeric character reference in a source document may therefore in some cases correspond to two 16-bit units in a DOMString (a high surrogate and a low surrogate). Note: Even though the DOM defines the name of the string type to be DOMString, bindings may use different names. For example for Java, DOMString is bound to the String type because it also uses UTF-16 as its encoding. Note: As of August 2000, the OMG IDL specification ([OMG IDL]) included a wstring type. However, that definition did not meet the interoperability criteria of the DOM API since it relied on negotiation to decide the width and encoding of a character. 1.1.6. The DOMTimeStamp type To ensure interoperability, the DOM specifies the following: Type Definition DOMTimeStamp A DOMTimeStamp represents a number of milliseconds. IDL Definition typedef unsigned long long DOMTimeStamp; Note: Even though the DOM uses the type DOMTimeStamp, bindings may use different types. For example for Java, DOMTimeStamp is bound to the long type. In ECMAScript, TimeStamp is bound to the Date type because the range of the integer type is too small. 1.1.7. The DOMUserData type To ensure interoperability, the DOM specifies the following: Type Definition DOMUserData A DOMUserData represents a reference to an application object. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMUserData; Note: Even though the DOM uses the type DOMUserData, bindings may use different types. For example, in Java DOMUserData is bound to the Object type, while in ECMAScript DOMUserData is bound to any type. Issue DOMKeyObject-1: What does DOMUserData map to in ECMAScript? Resolution: "any type" 1.1.8. The DOMObject type To ensure interoperability, the DOM specifies the following: Type Definition DOMObject A DOMObject represents a reference to an application object. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMObject; Note: Even though the DOM uses the type DOMObject, bindings may use different types. For example, in Java and ECMAScript DOMObject is bound to the Object type. 1.1.9. String comparisons in the DOM The DOM has many interfaces that imply string matching. HTML processors generally assume an uppercase (less often, lowercase) normalization of names for such things as elements, while XML is explicitly case sensitive. For the purposes of the DOM, string matching is performed purely by binary comparison of the 16-bit units of the DOMString. In addition, the DOM assumes that any case normalizations take place in the processor, before the DOM structures are built. The W3C Text normalization, as defined in [CharModel], is assumed to happen at serialization time. The DOM Level 3 Load and Save module [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save] provides a serialization mechanism (see the DOMWriter interface, section 2.3.1) and defines the "ls-normalize-characters" to assure that text is serialized in the W3C Text Normalization form. Other serialization mechanisms built on top of the DOM Level 3 Core also have to assure that text is serialized in the W3C Text Normalization form. (ED: We need to review the case sensitivity of methods and attributes and how it fits with XML and HTML. Current wording is not clear at all ... ) 1.1.10. XML Namespaces The DOM Level 2 (and higher) supports XML namespaces [XML Namespaces] by augmenting several interfaces of the DOM Level 1 Core to allow creating and manipulating elements and attributes associated to a namespace. As far as the DOM is concerned, special attributes used for declaring XML namespaces are still exposed and can be manipulated just like any other attribute. However, nodes are permanently bound to namespace URIs as they get created. Consequently, moving a node within a document, using the DOM, in no case results in a change of its namespace prefix or namespace URI. Similarly, creating a node with a namespace prefix and namespace URI, or changing the namespace prefix of a node, does not result in any addition, removal, or modification of any special attributes for declaring the appropriate XML namespaces. Namespace validation is not enforced; the DOM application is responsible. In particular, since the mapping between prefixes and namespace URIs is not enforced, in general, the resulting document cannot be serialized naively. For example, applications may have to declare every namespace in use when serializing a document. In general, the DOM implementation (and higher) doesn't perform any URI normalization or canonicalization. The URIs given to the DOM are assumed to be valid (e.g., characters such as white spaces are properly escaped), and no lexical checking is performed. Absolute URI references are treated as strings and compared literally. How relative namespace URI references are treated is undefined. To ensure interoperability only absolute namespace URI references (i.e., URI references beginning with a scheme name and a colon) should be used. Applications that wish to have no namespace should use the value null as the namespaceURI parameter of methods. If they pass an empty string the DOM implementation turns it into a null. Note: In the DOM, all namespace declaration attributes are by definition bound to the namespace URI: "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/". These are the attributes whose namespace prefix or qualified name is "xmlns". Although, at the time of writing, this is not part of the XML Namespaces specification [XML Namespaces], it is planned to be incorporated in a future revision. In a document with no namespaces, the child list of an EntityReference node is always the same as that of the corresponding Entity. This is not true in a document where an entity contains unbound namespace prefixes. In such a case, the descendants of the corresponding EntityReference nodes may be bound to different namespace URIs, depending on where the entity references are. Also, because, in the DOM, nodes always remain bound to the same namespace URI, moving such EntityReference nodes can lead to documents that cannot be serialized. This is also true when the DOM Level 1 method createEntityReference of the Document interface is used to create entity references that correspond to such entities, since the descendants of the returned EntityReference are unbound. The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes. For all of these reasons, use of such entities and entity references should be avoided or used with extreme care. A future Level of the DOM may include some additional support for handling these. The new methods, such as createElementNS and createAttributeNS of the Document interface, are meant to be used by namespace aware applications. Simple applications that do not use namespaces can use the DOM Level 1 methods, such as createElement and createAttribute. Elements and attributes created in this way do not have any namespace prefix, namespace URI, or local name. Note: Given that the property [in-scope namespaces] defined in [XML Information set] is not accessible from DOM Level 3 Core, the properties [prefix] and [namespace name] defined by the Namespace Information Item in [XML Information set] are not accessible from DOM Level 3 Core. However, [DOM Level 3 XPath] does provide a way to access them. Note: DOM Level 1 methods are namespace ignorant. Therefore, while it is safe to use these methods when not dealing with namespaces, using them and the new ones at the same time should be avoided. DOM Level 1 methods solely identify attribute nodes by their nodeName. On the contrary, the DOM Level 2 methods related to namespaces, identify attribute nodes by their namespaceURI and localName. Because of this fundamental difference, mixing both sets of methods can lead to unpredictable results. In particular, using setAttributeNS, an element may have two attributes (or more) that have the same nodeName, but different namespaceURIs. Calling getAttribute with that nodeName could then return any of those attributes. The result depends on the implementation. Similarly, using setAttributeNode, one can set two attributes (or more) that have different nodeNames but the same prefix and namespaceURI. In this case getAttributeNodeNS will return either attribute, in an implementation dependent manner. The only guarantee in such cases is that all methods that access a named item by its nodeName will access the same item, and all methods which access a node by its URI and local name will access the same node. For instance, setAttribute and setAttributeNS affect the node that getAttribute and getAttributeNS, respectively, return. 1.1.11. Mixed DOM implementations As new XML vocabularies are developed, those defining the vocabularies are also beginning to define specialized APIs for manipulating XML instances of those vocabularies. This is usually done by extending the DOM to provide interfaces and methods that perform operations frequently needed their users. For example, the MathML [MathML 2.0] and SVG [SVG 1.0] specifications are developing DOM extensions to allow users to manipulate instances of these vocabularies using semantics appropriate to images and mathematics (respectively) as well as the generic DOM XML semantics. Instances of SVG or MathML are often embedded in XML documents conforming to a different schema such as XHTML. While the XML Namespaces Recommendation provides a mechanism for integrating these documents at the syntax level, it has become clear that the DOM Level 2 Recommendation [DOM Level 2 Core] is not rich enough to cover all the issues that have been encountered in having these different DOM implementations be used together in a single application. DOM Level 3 deals with the requirements brought about by embedding fragments written according to a specific markup language (the embedded component) in a document where the rest of the markup is not written according to that specific markup language (the host document). It does not deal with fragments embedded by reference or linking. A DOM implementation supporting DOM Level 3 Core should be able to collaborate with subcomponents implementing specific DOMs to assemble a compound document that can be traversed and manipulated via DOM interfaces as if it were a seamless whole. The normal typecast operation on an object should support the interfaces expected by legacy code for a given document type. Typecasting techniques may not be adequate for selecting between multiple DOM specializations of an object which were combined at run time, because they may not all be part of the same object as defined by the binding's object model. Conflicts are most obvious with the Document object, since it is shared as owner by the rest of the document. In a homogeneous document, elements rely on the Document for specialized services and construction of specialized nodes. In a heterogeneous document, elements from different modules expect different services and APIs from the same Document object, since there can only be one owner and root of the document hierarchy. 1.1.12. Bootstrapping Because previous versions of the DOM specification only defined a set of interfaces, applications had to rely on some implementation dependent code to start from. However, hard-coding the application to a specific implementation prevents the application from running on other implementations and from using the most-suitable implementation of the environment. At the same time, implementations may also need to load modules or perform other setup to efficiently adapt to different and sometimes mutually-exclusive feature sets. To solve these problems this specification introduces a DOMImplementationRegistry object with a function that lets an application find an implementation, based on the specific features it requires. How this object is found and what it exactly looks like is not defined here, because this cannot be done in a language-independent manner. Instead, each language binding defines its own way of doing this. See Java Language Binding and ECMAScript Language Binding for specifics. In all cases, though, the DOMImplementationRegistry provides a getDOMImplementation method accepting a features string, which is passed to every known DOMImplementationSource until a suitable DOMImplementation is found and returned. This method is the same as the one found on the DOMImplementationSource interface defined below. Any number of DOMImplementationSource objects can be registered. A source may return one or more DOMImplementation singletons or construct new DOMImplementation objects, depending upon whether the requested features require specialized state in the DOMImplementation object. Issue Level-3-Bootstrap-1: Is this not generic enough? Resolution: Yes. (F2F 31 Jul 2001) Issue Level-3-Bootstrap-2: Should the method getDOMImplementation be called byFeature instead? Resolution: No. (F2F 31 Jul 2001) 1.2. Fundamental Interfaces The interfaces within this section are considered fundamental, and must be fully implemented by all conforming implementations of the DOM, including all HTML DOM implementations [DOM Level 2 HTML], unless otherwise specified. A DOM application may use the hasFeature(feature, version) method of the DOMImplementation interface with parameter values "Core" and "3.0" (respectively) to determine whether or not this module is supported by the implementation. Any implementation that conforms to DOM Level 3 or a DOM Level 3 module must conform to the Core module. Please refer to additional information about conformance in this specification. The DOM Level 3 Core module is backward compatible with the DOM Level 2 Core [DOM Level 2 Core] module, i.e. a DOM Level 3 Core implementation who returns true for "Core" with the version number "3.0" must also return true for this feature when the version number is "2.0", "" or, null. Exception DOMException DOM operations only raise exceptions in "exceptional" circumstances, i.e., when an operation is impossible to perform (either for logical reasons, because data is lost, or because the implementation has become unstable). In general, DOM methods return specific error values in ordinary processing situations, such as out-of-bound errors when using NodeList. Implementations should raise other exceptions under other circumstances. For example, implementations should raise an implementation-dependent exception if a null argument is passed when null was not expected. Some languages and object systems do not support the concept of exceptions. For such systems, error conditions may be indicated using native error reporting mechanisms. For some bindings, for example, methods may return error codes similar to those listed in the corresponding method descriptions. IDL Definition exception DOMException { unsigned short code; }; // ExceptionCode const unsigned short INDEX_SIZE_ERR = 1; const unsigned short DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR = 2; const unsigned short HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR = 3; const unsigned short WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR = 4; const unsigned short INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR = 5; const unsigned short NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR = 6; const unsigned short NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR = 7; const unsigned short NOT_FOUND_ERR = 8; const unsigned short NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR = 9; const unsigned short INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR = 10; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: const unsigned short INVALID_STATE_ERR = 11; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: const unsigned short SYNTAX_ERR = 12; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: const unsigned short INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR = 13; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: const unsigned short NAMESPACE_ERR = 14; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: const unsigned short INVALID_ACCESS_ERR = 15; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: const unsigned short VALIDATION_ERR = 16; Definition group ExceptionCode An integer indicating the type of error generated. Note: Other numeric codes are reserved for W3C for possible future use. Defined Constants DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR If the specified range of text does not fit into a DOMString HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR If any node is inserted somewhere it doesn't belong INDEX_SIZE_ERR If index or size is negative, or greater than the allowed value INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR If an attempt is made to add an attribute that is already in use elsewhere INVALID_ACCESS_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 2. If a parameter or an operation is not supported by the underlying object. INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR If an invalid or illegal character is specified, such as in a name. See production 2 in the XML specification for the definition of a legal character, and production 5 for the definition of a legal name character. INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 2. If an attempt is made to modify the type of the underlying object. INVALID_STATE_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 2. If an attempt is made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable. NAMESPACE_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 2. If an attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces. NOT_FOUND_ERR If an attempt is made to reference a node in a context where it does not exist NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR If the implementation does not support the requested type of object or operation. NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR If data is specified for a node which does not support data NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR If an attempt is made to modify an object where modifications are not allowed SYNTAX_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 2. If an invalid or illegal string is specified. VALIDATION_ERR, introduced in DOM Level 3. If a call to a method such as insertBefore or removeChild would make the Node invalid with respect to "partial validity", this exception would be raised and the operation would not be done. This code is used in [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save]. Refer to this specification for further information. WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR If a node is used in a different document than the one that created it (that doesn't support it) Interface DOMImplementationSource This interface permits a DOM implementer to supply one or more implementations, based upon requested features. Each implemented DOMImplementationSource object is listed in the binding-specific list of available sources so that its DOMImplementation objects are made available. IDL Definition interface DOMImplementationSource { DOMImplementation getDOMImplementation(in DOMString features); }; Methods getDOMImplementation A method to request a DOM implementation. Parameters features of type DOMString A string that specifies which features are required. This is a space separated list in which each feature is specified by its name optionally followed by a space and a version number. This is something like: "XML 1.0 Traversal Events 2.0" Return Value DOMImplementation An implementation that has the desired features, or null if this source has none. No Exceptions Interface DOMImplementation The DOMImplementation interface provides a number of methods for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance of the document object model. IDL Definition interface DOMImplementation { boolean hasFeature(in DOMString feature, in DOMString version); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: DocumentType createDocumentType(in DOMString qualifiedName, in DOMString publicId, in DOMString systemId) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: Document createDocument(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString qualifiedName, in DocumentType doctype) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: DOMImplementation getInterface(in DOMString feature); }; Methods createDocument introduced in DOM Level 2 Creates a DOM Document object of the specified type with its document element. Note that based on the DocumentType given to create the document, the implementation may instantiate specialized Document objects that support additional features than the "Core", such as "HTML" [DOM Level 2 HTML]. On the other hand, setting the DocumentType after the document was created makes this very unlikely to happen. Alternatively, specialized Document creation methods, such as createHTMLDocument [DOM Level 2 HTML], can be used to obtain specific types of Document objects. Parameters namespaceURI of type DOMString The namespace URI of the document element to create or null. qualifiedName of type DOMString The qualified name of the document element to be created or null. doctype of type DocumentType The type of document to be created or null. When doctype is not null, its Node.ownerDocument attribute is set to the document being created. Return Value Document A new Document object with its document element. If the NamespaceURI, qualifiedName, and doctype are null, the returned Document is empty with no document element. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName is null and the namespaceURI is different from null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [XML Namespaces], or if the DOM implementation does not support the "XML" feature but a non-null namespace URI was provided, since namespaces were defined by XML. WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if doctype has already been used with a different document or was created from a different implementation. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised by DOM implementations which do not support the "XML" feature, if they choose not to support this method. Note: Other features introduced in the future, by the DOM WG or in extensions defined by other groups, may also demand support for this method; please consult the definition of the feature to see if it requires this method. createDocumentType introduced in DOM Level 2 Creates an empty DocumentType node. Entity declarations and notations are not made available. Entity reference expansions and default attribute additions do not occur. It is expected that a future version of the DOM will provide a way for populating a DocumentType. Parameters qualifiedName of type DOMString The qualified name of the document type to be created. publicId of type DOMString The external subset public identifier. systemId of type DOMString The external subset system identifier. Return Value DocumentType A new DocumentType node with Node.ownerDocument set to null. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised by DOM implementations which do not support the "XML" feature, if they choose not to support this method. Note: Other features introduced in the future, by the DOM WG or in extensions defined by other groups, may also demand support for this method; please consult the definition of the feature to see if it requires this method. getInterface introduced in DOM Level 3 This method makes available a DOMImplementation's specialized interface (see Mixed DOM implementations). Parameters feature of type DOMString The name of the feature requested (case-insensitive). Return Value DOMImplementation Returns an alternate DOMImplementation which implements the specialized APIs of the specified feature, if any, or null if there is no alternate DOMImplementation object which implements interfaces associated with that feature. Any alternate DOMImplementation returned by this method must delegate to the primary core DOMImplementation and not return results inconsistent with the primary DOMImplementation No Exceptions hasFeature Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature. Parameters feature of type DOMString The name of the feature to test (case-insensitive). The values used by DOM features are defined throughout the DOM Level 3 specifications and listed in the Conformance section. The name must be an XML name. To avoid possible conflicts, as a convention, names referring to features defined outside the DOM specification should be made unique. version of type DOMString This is the version number of the feature to test. In Level 3, the string can be either "3.0", "2.0" or "1.0". If the version is null or empty string, supporting any version of the feature causes the method to return true. Return Value boolean true if the feature is implemented in the specified version, false otherwise. No Exceptions Interface DocumentFragment DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfill this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object. Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node. The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment nodes do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document. When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore and appendChild. Note: The properties [notations] and [unparsed entities] defined by the Document Information Item in [XML Information set] are accessible through the DocumentType interface. The property [all declarations processed] is not accessible through the DOM API. IDL Definition interface DocumentFragment : Node { }; Interface Document The Document interface represents the entire HTML or XML document. Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides the primary access to the document's data. Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc. cannot exist outside the context of a Document, the Document interface also contains the factory methods needed to create these objects. The Node objects created have a ownerDocument attribute which associates them with the Document within whose context they were created. IDL Definition interface Document : Node { // Modified in DOM Level 3: readonly attribute DocumentType doctype; readonly attribute DOMImplementation implementation; readonly attribute Element documentElement; Element createElement(in DOMString tagName) raises(DOMException); DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment(); Text createTextNode(in DOMString data); Comment createComment(in DOMString data); CDATASection createCDATASection(in DOMString data) raises(DOMException); ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(in DOMString target, in DOMString data) raises(DOMException); Attr createAttribute(in DOMString name) raises(DOMException); EntityReference createEntityReference(in DOMString name) raises(DOMException); NodeList getElementsByTagName(in DOMString tagname); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: Node importNode(in Node importedNode, in boolean deep) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: Element createElementNS(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString qualifiedName) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: Attr createAttributeNS(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString qualifiedName) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS(in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString localName); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: Element getElementById(in DOMString elementId); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMString actualEncoding; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMString encoding; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute boolean standalone; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMString version; // raises(DOMException) on setting // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute boolean strictErrorChecking; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMErrorHandler errorHandler; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMString documentURI; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: Node adoptNode(in Node source) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: void normalizeDocument(); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: boolean canSetNormalizationFeature(in DOMString name, in boolean state); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: void setNormalizationFeature(in DOMString name, in boolean state) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: boolean getNormalizationFeature(in DOMString name) raises(DOMException); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: Node renameNode(in Node n, in DOMString namespaceURI, in DOMString name) raises(DOMException); }; Attributes actualEncoding of type DOMString, introduced in DOM Level 3 An attribute specifying the actual encoding of this document. This is null otherwise. This attribute represents the property [character encoding scheme] defined in [XML Information set]. doctype of type DocumentType, readonly, modified in DOM Level 3 The Document Type Declaration (see DocumentType) associated with this document. For HTML documents as well as XML documents without a document type declaration this returns null. This provides direct access to the DocumentType node, child node of this Document. This node can be set at document creation time and later changed through the use of child nodes manipulation methods, such as insertBefore, or replaceChild. Note, however, that while some implementations may instantiate different types of Document objects supporting additional features than the "Core", such as "HTML" [DOM Level 2 HTML], based on the DocumentType specified at creation time, changing it afterwards is very unlikely to result in a change of the features supported. documentElement of type Element, readonly This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the document element of the document. This attribute represents the property [document element] defined in [XML Information set]. documentURI of type DOMString, introduced in DOM Level 3 The location of the document or null if undefined. Beware that when the Document supports the feature "HTML" [DOM Level 2 HTML], the href attribute of the HTML BASE element takes precedence over this attribute. encoding of type DOMString, introduced in DOM Level 3 An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document. This is null when unspecified. errorHandler of type DOMErrorHandler, introduced in DOM Level 3 This attribute allows applications to specify a DOMErrorHandler to be called in the event that an error is encountered while performing an operation on a document. Note that not all methods use this mechanism, see the description of each method for details. implementation of type DOMImplementation, readonly The DOMImplementation object that handles this document. A DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations. standalone of type boolean, introduced in DOM Level 3 An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone. This attribute represents the property [standalone] defined in [XML Information set]. strictErrorChecking of type boolean, introduced in DOM Level 3 An attribute specifying whether errors checking is enforced or not. When set to false, the implementation is free to not test every possible error case normally defined on DOM operations, and not raise any DOMException. In case of error, the behavior is undefined. This attribute is true by defaults. version of type DOMString, introduced in DOM Level 3 An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document. This is null when unspecified. This attribute represents the property [version] defined in [XML Information set]. Exceptions on setting DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the version is set to a value that is not supported by this Document. Methods adoptNode introduced in DOM Level 3 Changes the ownerDocument of a node, its children, as well as the attached attribute nodes if there are any. If the node has a parent it is first removed from its parent child list. This effectively allows moving a subtree from one document to another. The following list describes the specifics for each type of node. ATTRIBUTE_NODE The ownerElement attribute is set to null and the specified flag is set to true on the adopted Attr. The descendants of the source Attr are recursively adopted. DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE The descendants of the source node are recursively adopted. DOCUMENT_NODE Document nodes cannot be adopted. DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE DocumentType nodes cannot be adopted. ELEMENT_NODE Specified attribute nodes of the source element are adopted, and the generated Attr nodes. Default attributes are discarded, though if the document being adopted into defines default attributes for this element name, those are assigned. The descendants of the source element are recursively adopted. ENTITY_NODE Entity nodes cannot be adopted. ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE Only the EntityReference node itself is adopted, the descendants are discarded, since the source and destination documents might have defined the entity differently. If the document being imported into provides a definition for this entity name, its value is assigned. NOTATION_NODE Notation nodes cannot be adopted. PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE These nodes can all be adopted. No specifics. Issue adoptNode-1: Should this method simply return null when it fails? How "exceptional" is failure for this method? Resolution: Stick with raising exceptions only in exceptional circumstances, return null on failure (F2F 19 Jun 2000). Issue adoptNode-2: Can an entity node really be adopted? Resolution: No, neither can Notation nodes (Telcon 13 Dec 2000). Issue adoptNode-3: Does this affect keys and hashCode's of the adopted subtree nodes? If so, what about readonly-ness of key and hashCode? if not, would appendChild affect keys/hashCodes or would it generate exceptions if key's are duplicate? Resolution: Both keys and hashcodes have been dropped. Parameters source of type Node The node to move into this document. Return Value Node The adopted node, or null if this operation fails, such as when the source node comes from a different implementation. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the source node is of type DOCUMENT, DOCUMENT_TYPE. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the source node is readonly. canSetNormalizationFeature introduced in DOM Level 3 Query whether setting a feature to a specific value is supported. The feature name has the same form as a DOM hasFeature string. Parameters name of type DOMString The name of the feature to check. state of type boolean The requested state of the feature (true or false). Return Value boolean true if the feature could be successfully set to the specified value, or false if the feature is not recognized or the requested value is not supported. This does not change the current value of the feature itself. No Exceptions createAttribute Creates an Attr of the given name. Note that the Attr instance can then be set on an Element using the setAttributeNode method. To create an attribute with a qualified name and namespace URI, use the createAttributeNS method. Parameters name of type DOMString The name of the attribute. Return Value Attr A new Attr object with the nodeName attribute set to name, and localName, prefix, and namespaceURI set to null. The value of the attribute is the empty string. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character. createAttributeNS introduced in DOM Level 2 Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI. Per [XML Namespaces], applications must use the value null as the namespaceURI parameter for methods if they wish to have no namespace. Parameters namespaceURI of type DOMString The namespace URI of the attribute to create. qualifiedName of type DOMString The qualified name of the attribute to instantiate. Return Value Attr A new Attr object with the following attributes: Attribute Value Node.nodeName qualifiedName Node.namespaceURInamespaceURI Node.prefix prefix, extracted from qualifiedName, or null if there is no prefix Node.localName local name, extracted from qualifiedName Attr.name qualifiedName Node.nodeValue the empty string Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification [XML 1.0]. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", or if the qualifiedName, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/". NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not support the "XML" feature, since namespaces were defined by XML. createCDATASection Creates a CDATASection node whose value is the specified string. Parameters data of type DOMString The data for the CDATASection contents. Return Value CDATASection The new CDATASection object. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document. createComment Creates a Comment node given the specified string. Parameters data of type DOMString The data for the node. Return Value Comment The new Comment object. No Exceptions createDocumentFragment Creates an empty DocumentFragment object. Return Value DocumentFragment A new DocumentFragment. No Parameters No Exceptions createElement Creates an element of the type specified. Note that the instance returned implements the Element interface, so attributes can be specified directly on the returned object. In addition, if there are known attributes with default values, Attr nodes representing them are automatically created and attached to the element. To create an element with a qualified name and namespace URI, use the createElementNS method. Parameters tagName of type DOMString The name of the element type to instantiate. For XML, this is case-sensitive, otherwise it depends on the case-sentivity of the markup language in use. In that case, the name is mapped to the canonical form of that markup by the DOM implementation. Return Value Element A new Element object with the nodeName attribute set to tagName, and localName, prefix, and namespaceURI set to null. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character. createElementNS introduced in DOM Level 2 Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI. Per [XML Namespaces], applications must use the value null as the namespaceURI parameter for methods if they wish to have no namespace. Parameters namespaceURI of type DOMString The namespace URI of the element to create. qualifiedName of type DOMString The qualified name of the element type to instantiate. Return Value Element A new Element object with the following attributes: Attribute Value Node.nodeName qualifiedName Node.namespaceURInamespaceURI Node.prefix prefix, extracted from qualifiedName, or null if there is no prefix Node.localName local name, extracted from qualifiedName Element.tagName qualifiedName Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification [XML 1.0]. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [XML Namespaces]. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not support the "XML" feature, since namespaces were defined by XML. createEntityReference Creates an EntityReference object. In addition, if the referenced entity is known, the child list of the EntityReference node is made the same as that of the corresponding Entity node. Note: If any descendant of the Entity node has an unbound namespace prefix, the corresponding descendant of the created EntityReference node is also unbound; (its namespaceURI is null). The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes. Parameters name of type DOMString The name of the entity to reference. Return Value EntityReference The new EntityReference object. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document. createProcessingInstruction Creates a ProcessingInstruction node given the specified name and data strings. Parameters target of type DOMString The target part of the processing instruction. data of type DOMString The data for the node. Return Value ProcessingInstruction The new ProcessingInstruction object. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target contains an illegal character. NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document. createTextNode Creates a Text node given the specified string. Parameters data of type DOMString The data for the node. Return Value Text The new Text object. No Exceptions getElementById introduced in DOM Level 2 Returns the Element whose ID is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this ID. Note: The DOM implementation must have information that says which attributes are of type ID. Attributes with the name "ID" are not of type ID unless so defined. Implementations that do not know whether attributes are of type ID or not are expected to return null. Parameters elementId of type DOMString The unique id value for an element. Return Value Element The matching element. No Exceptions getElementsByTagName Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given tag name in document order. Parameters tagname of type DOMString The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags. For XML, this is case-sensitive, otherwise it depends on the case-sentivity of the markup language in use. Return Value NodeList A new NodeList object containing all the matched Elements. No Exceptions getElementsByTagNameNS introduced in DOM Level 2 Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given local name and namespace URI in document order. Parameters namespaceURI of type DOMString The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces. localName of type DOMString The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names. Return Value NodeList A new NodeList object containing all the matched Elements. No Exceptions getNormalizationFeature introduced in DOM Level 3 Look up the value of a feature. The feature name has the same form as a DOM hasFeature string. The recognized features are the same as the ones defined for setNormalizationFeature. Parameters name of type DOMString The name of the feature to look up. Return Value boolean The current state of the feature (true or false). Exceptions DOMException NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised when the feature name is not recognized. importNode introduced in DOM Level 2 Imports a node from another document to this document. The returned node has no parent; (parentNode is null). The source node is not altered or removed from the original document; this method creates a new copy of the source node. For all nodes, importing a node creates a node object owned by the importing document, with attribute values identical to the source node's nodeName and nodeType, plus the attributes related to namespaces (prefix, localName, and namespaceURI). As in the cloneNode operation, the source node is not altered. User data associated to the imported node is not carried over. However, if any UserDataHandlers has been specified along with the associated data these handlers will be called with the appropriate parameters before this method returns. Additional information is copied as appropriate to the nodeType, attempting to mirror the behavior expected if a fragment of XML or HTML source was copied from one document to another, recognizing that the two documents may have different DTDs in the XML case. The following list describes the specifics for each type of node. ATTRIBUTE_NODE The ownerElement attribute is set to null and the specified flag is set to true on the generated Attr. The descendants of the source Attr are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree. Note that the deep parameter has no effect on Attr nodes; they always carry their children with them when imported. DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE If the deep option was set to true, the descendants of the source DocumentFragment are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled under the imported DocumentFragment to form the corresponding subtree. Otherwise, this simply generates an empty DocumentFragment. DOCUMENT_NODE Document nodes cannot be imported. DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE DocumentType nodes cannot be imported. ELEMENT_NODE Specified attribute nodes of the source element are imported, and the generated Attr nodes are attached to the generated Element. Default attributes are not copied, though if the document being imported into defines default attributes for this element name, those are assigned. If the importNode deep parameter was set to true, the descendants of the source element are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree. ENTITY_NODE Entity nodes can be imported, however in the current release of the DOM the DocumentType is readonly. Ability to add these imported nodes to a DocumentType will be considered for addition to a future release of the DOM. On import, the publicId, systemId, and notationName attributes are copied. If a deep import is requested, the descendants of the the source Entity are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree. ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE Only the EntityReference itself is copied, even if a deep import is requested, since the source and destination documents might have defined the entity differently. If the document being imported into provides a definition for this entity name, its value is assigned. NOTATION_NODE Notation nodes can be imported, however in the current release of the DOM the DocumentType is readonly. Ability to add these imported nodes to a DocumentType will be considered for addition to a future release of the DOM. On import, the publicId and systemId attributes are copied. Note that the deep parameter has no effect on this type of nodes since they cannot have any children. PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE The imported node copies its target and data values from those of the source node. Note that the deep parameter has no effect on this type of nodes since they cannot have any children. TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE These three types of nodes inheriting from CharacterData copy their data and length attributes from those of the source node. Note that the deep parameter has no effect on these types of nodes since they cannot have any children. Parameters importedNode of type Node The node to import. deep of type boolean If true, recursively import the subtree under the specified node; if false, import only the node itself, as explained above. This has no effect on nodes that cannot have any children, and on Attr, and EntityReference nodes. Return Value Node The imported node that belongs to this Document. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the type of node being imported is not supported. INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if one the imported names contain an illegal character. This may happen when importing an XML 1.1 [XML 1.1] element into an XML 1.0 document, for instance. normalizeDocument introduced in DOM Level 3 This method acts as if the document was going through a save and load cycle, putting the document in a "normal" form. The actual result depends on the features being set and governing what operations actually take place. See setNormalizationFeature for details. Noticeably this method normalizes Text nodes, makes the document "namespace wellformed", according to the algorithm described below in pseudo code, by adding missing namespace declaration attributes and adding or changing namespace prefixes, updates the replacement tree of EntityReference nodes, normalizes attribute values, etc. Mutation events, when supported, are generated to reflect the changes occuring on the document. See Namespace normalization for details on how namespace declaration attributes and prefixes are normalized. Issue normalizeNS-1: Any other name? Joe proposes normalizeNamespaces. Resolution: normalizeDocument. (F2F 26 Sep 2001) Issue normalizeNS-2: How specific should this be? Should we not even specify that this should be done by walking down the tree? Resolution: Very. See above. Issue normalizeNS-3: What does this do on attribute nodes? Resolution: Doesn't do anything (F2F 1 Aug 2000). Issue normalizeNS-4: How does it work with entity reference subtree which may be broken? Resolution: This doesn't affect entity references which are not visited in this operation (F2F 1 Aug 2000). Issue normalizeNS-5: Should this really be on Node? Resolution: Yes, but this only works on Document, Element, and DocumentFragment. On other types it is a no-op. (F2F 1 Aug 2000). No. Now that it does much more than simply fixing namespaces it only makes sense on Document (F2F 26 Sep 2001). Issue normalizeNS-6: What happens with read-only nodes? Issue normalizeNS-7: What/how errors should be reported? Are there any? Resolution: Through the error reporter. Issue normalizeNS-8: Should this be optional? Resolution: No. Issue normalizeNS-9: What happens with regard to mutation events? Resolution: Mutation events are fired as expected. (F2F 28 Feb 2002). No Parameters No Return Value No Exceptions renameNode introduced in DOM Level 3 Rename an existing node. When possible this simply changes the name of the given node, otherwise this creates a new node with the specified name and replaces the existing node with the new node as described below. This only applies to nodes of type ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE. When a new node is created, the following operations are performed: the new node is created, any registered event listener is registered on the new node, any user data attached to the old node is removed from that node, the old node is removed from its parent if it has one, the children are moved to the new node, if the renamed node is an Element its attributes are moved to the new node, the new node is inserted at the position the old node used to have in its parent's child nodes list if it has one, the user data that was attached to the old node is attach to the new node, the user data event NODE_RENAMED is fired. When the node being renamed is an Attr that is attached to an Element, the node is first removed from the Element attributes map. Then, once renamed, either by modifying the existing node or creating a new one as described above, it is put back. In addition, when the implementation supports the feature "MutationEvents", each mutation operation involved in this method fires the appropriate event, and in the end the event ElementNameChanged or AttributeNameChanged is fired. Issue renameNode-1: Should this throw a HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR? Resolution: No. (F2F 28 Feb 2002). Parameters n of type Node The node to rename. namespaceURI of type DOMString The new namespaceURI. name of type DOMString The new qualified name. Return Value Node The renamed node. This is either the specified node or the new node that was created to replace the specified node. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised when the type of the specified node is neither ELEMENT_NODE nor ATTRIBUTE_NODE. WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised when the specified node was created from a different document than this document. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [XML Namespaces]. Also raised, when the node being renamed is an attribute, if the qualifiedName, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/". setNormalizationFeature introduced in DOM Level 3 Set the state of a feature. Issue normalizationFeature-1: Need to specify the list of features. Feature names are valid XML names. Implementation specific features (extensions) should choose an implementation specific prefix to avoid name collisions. The following lists feature names that are recognized by all implementations. However, it is sometimes possible for a Document to recognize a feature but not to support setting its value. The following list of recognized features indicates the definitions of each feature state, if setting the state to true or false must be supported or is optional and, which state is the default one: "canonical-form" true [optional] Canonicalize the document according to the rules specified in [Canonical XML]. Note that this is limited to what can be represented in the DOM. In particular, there is no way to specify the order of the attributes in the DOM. Issue normalizationFeature-14: What happen to other features? are they ignored? if yes, how do you know if a feature is ignored? false [required] (default) Do not canonicalize the document. "cdata-sections" true [required] (default) Keep CDATASection nodes in the document. Issue normalizationFeature-11: Name does not work really well in this case. ALH suggests renaming this to "cdata-sections". It works for both load and save. Resolution: Renamed as suggested. (Telcon 27 Jan 2002). false [optional] Transform CDATASection nodes in the document into Text nodes. The new Text node is then combined with any adjacent Text node. "comments" true [required] (default) Keep Comment nodes in the document. false [required] Discard Comment nodes in the Document. "datatype-normalization" true [required] Let the validation process do its datatype normalization that is defined in the used schema language. Note that this does not affect the DTD normalization operation which always takes place, in accordance to [XML 1.0]. Issue normalizationFeature-8: We should define "datatype normalization". Resolution: DTD normalization always apply because it's part of XML 1.0. Clarify the spec. (Telcon 27 Jan 2002). false [required] (default) Disable datatype normalization. The XML 1.0 attribute value normalization always occurs though. "discard-default-content" true [required] (default) Use whatever information available to the implementation (i.e. XML schema, DTD, the specified flag on Attr nodes, and so on) to decide what attributes and content should be discarded or not. Note that the specified flag on Attr nodes in itself is not always reliable, it is only reliable when it is set to false since the only case where it can be set to false is if the attribute was created by the implementation. The default content won't be removed if an implementation does not have any information available. Issue normalizationFeature-2: How does exactly work? What's the comment about level 1 implementations? Resolution: Remove "Level 1" (Telcon 16 Jan 2002). false [required] Keep all attributes and all content. "entities" true [required] (default) Keep EntityReference and Entity nodes in the document. Issue normalizationFeature-9: How does that interact with expand-entity-references? ALH suggests consolidating the two to a single feature called "entity-references" that is used both for load and save. Resolution: Consolidate both features into a single feature called 'entities'. (Telcon 27 Jan 2002). false [optional] Remove all EntityReference and Entity nodes from the document, putting the entity expansions directly in their place. Text nodes are into "normal" form. Only EntityReference nodes to non-defined entities are kept in the document. "infoset" true [optional] Only keep in the document the information defined in the XML Information Set [XML Information set]. This forces the following features to false: namespace-declarations, validate-if-schema, entities, cdata-sections. This forces the following features to true: datatype-normalization, whitespace-in-element-content, comments. Other features are not changed unless explicity specified in the description of the features. Note that querying this feature with getFeature returns true only if the individual features specified above are appropriately set. Issue normalizationFeature-12: Name doesn't work well here. ALH suggests renaming this to limit-to-infoset or match-infoset, something like that. Resolution: Renamed 'infoset' (Telcon 27 Jan 2002). false Setting infoset to false has no effect. Issue normalizationFeature-13: Shouldn't we change this to setting the relevant options back to their default value? Resolution: No, this is more like a convenience function, it's better to keep it simple. (F2F 28 Feb 2002). "namespace-declarations" true [required] (default) Include namespace declaration attributes, specified or defaulted from the schema or the DTD, in the document. See also the section Declaring Namespaces in [XML Namespaces]. false [optional] Discard all namespace declaration attributes. The Namespace prefixes are retained even if this feature is set to false. "normalize-characters" true [optional] Perform the W3C Text Normalization of the characters [CharModel] in the document. false [required] (default) Do not perform character normalization. "split-cdata-sections" true [required] (default) Split CDATA sections containing the CDATA section termination marker ']]>'. When a CDATA section is split a warning is issued. false [required] Signal an error if a CDATASection contains an unrepresentable character. "validate" true [optional] Require the validation against a schema (i.e. XML schema, DTD, [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save], any other type or representation of schema) of the document as it is being normalized as defined by [XML 1.0]. If validation errors are found, or no schema was found, the error handler is notified. Note also that no datatype normalization (i.e. non-XML 1.0 normalization) is done according to the schema used unless the feature datatype-normalization is true. Note: validate-if-schema and validate are mutually exclusive, setting one of them to true will set the other one to false. false [required] (default) Only XML 1.0 non-validating processing must be done. Note that validation might still happen if validate-if-schema is true. "validate-if-schema" true [optional] Enable validation only if a declaration for the document element can be found (independently of where it is found, i.e. XML schema, DTD, [DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save], or any other type or representation of schema). If validation errors are found, the error handler is notified. Note also that no datatype normalization (i.e. non-XML 1.0 normalization) is done according to the schema used unless the feature datatype-normalization is true. Note: validate-if-schema and validate are mutually exclusive, setting one of them to true will set the other one to false. Issue normalizationFeature-6: How does that interact with the notion of active AS? Resolution: If document has AS model, than it "has a schema", thus validation will be performed against the active AS model. (Telcon 16 Jan 2002). false [required] (default) No validation should be performed if the document has a schema. Note that validation must still happen if validate is true. "whitespace-in-element-content" true [required] (default) Keep all white spaces in the document. Issue normalizationFeature-15: How does this feature interact with "validate" and Text.isWhitespaceInElementContent. false [optional] Discard white space in element content while normalizing. The implementation is expected to use the isWhitespaceInElementContent flag on Text nodes to determine if a text node should be written out or not. Parameters name of type DOMString The name of the feature to set. state of type boolean The requested state of the feature (true or false). Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised when the feature name is recognized but the requested value cannot be set. NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised when the feature name is not recognized. No Return Value Interface Node The Node interface is the primary datatype for the entire Document Object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree. While all objects implementing the Node interface expose methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing the Node interface may have children. For example, Text nodes may not have children, and adding children to such nodes results in a DOMException being raised. The attributes nodeName, nodeValue and attributes are included as a mechanism to get at node information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a specific nodeType (e.g., nodeValue for an Element or attributes for a Comment), this returns null. Note that the specialized interfaces may contain additional and more convenient mechanisms to get and set the relevant information. IDL Definition interface Node { // NodeType const unsigned short ELEMENT_NODE = 1; const unsigned short ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2; const unsigned short TEXT_NODE = 3; const unsigned short CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4; const unsigned short ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5; const unsigned short ENTITY_NODE = 6; const unsigned short PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7; const unsigned short COMMENT_NODE = 8; const unsigned short DOCUMENT_NODE = 9; const unsigned short DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10; const unsigned short DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11; const unsigned short NOTATION_NODE = 12; readonly attribute DOMString nodeName; attribute DOMString nodeValue; // raises(DOMException) on setting // raises(DOMException) on retrieval readonly attribute unsigned short nodeType; readonly attribute Node parentNode; readonly attribute NodeList childNodes; readonly attribute Node firstChild; readonly attribute Node lastChild; readonly attribute Node previousSibling; readonly attribute Node nextSibling; readonly attribute NamedNodeMap attributes; // Modified in DOM Level 2: readonly attribute Document ownerDocument; // Modified in DOM Level 3: Node insertBefore(in Node newChild, in Node refChild) raises(DOMException); // Modified in DOM Level 3: Node replaceChild(in Node newChild, in Node oldChild) raises(DOMException); // Modified in DOM Level 3: Node removeChild(in Node oldChild) raises(DOMException); Node appendChild(in Node newChild) raises(DOMException); boolean hasChildNodes(); Node cloneNode(in boolean deep); // Modified in DOM Level 2: void normalize(); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: boolean isSupported(in DOMString feature, in DOMString version); // Introduced in DOM Level 2: readonly attribute DOMString namespaceURI; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: attribute DOMString prefix; // raises(DOMException) on setting // Introduced in DOM Level 2: readonly attribute DOMString localName; // Introduced in DOM Level 2: boolean hasAttributes(); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: readonly attribute DOMString baseURI; // TreePosition const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x01; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x02; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR = 0x04; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT = 0x08; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT = 0x10; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE = 0x20; const unsigned short TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x00; // Introduced in DOM Level 3: unsigned short compareTreePosition(in Node other); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: attribute DOMString textContent; // raises(DOMException) on setting // raises(DOMException) on retrieval // Introduced in DOM Level 3: boolean isSameNode(in Node other); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: DOMString lookupNamespacePrefix(in DOMString namespaceURI, in boolean useDefault); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: boolean isDefaultNamespace(in DOMString namespaceURI); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: DOMString lookupNamespaceURI(in DOMString prefix); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: boolean isEqualNode(in Node arg); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: Node getInterface(in DOMString feature); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: DOMUserData setUserData(in DOMString key, in DOMUserData data, in UserDataHandler handler); // Introduced in DOM Level 3: DOMUserData getUserData(in DOMString key); }; Definition group NodeType An integer indicating which type of node this is. Note: Numeric codes up to 200 are reserved to W3C for possible future use. Defined Constants ATTRIBUTE_NODE The node is an Attr. CDATA_SECTION_NODE The node is a CDATASection. COMMENT_NODE The node is a Comment. DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE The node is a DocumentFragment. DOCUMENT_NODE The node is a Document. DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE The node is a DocumentType. ELEMENT_NODE The node is an Element. ENTITY_NODE The node is an Entity. ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE The node is an EntityReference. NOTATION_NODE The node is a Notation. PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE The node is a ProcessingInstruction. TEXT_NODE The node is a Text node. The values of nodeName, nodeValue, and attributes vary according to the node type as follows: Interface nodeName nodeValue attributes Attr name of attribute value of null attribute CDATASection "#cdata-section" content of null the CDATA Section Comment "#comment" content of null the comment Document "#document" null null DocumentFragment "#document-fragment" null null DocumentType document type name null null Element tag name null NamedNodeMap Entity entity name null null EntityReference name of entity null null referenced Notation notation name null null ProcessingInstructiontarget