Glossary
- Editors:
- Arnaud Le Hors, W3C
- Robert S. Sutor, IBM Research (for DOM Level 1)
Some of the following term definitions have been borrowed or
modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents.
See the links within the definitions for more information.
- bubbling phase
-
The process by which an event can be handled by one of the
target ancestors after being handled by the target node.
- capture phase
-
The process by which an event can be handled by one of the
target ancestors before being handled by the target node.
- child
- A child is an immediate descendant node of
a node.
- DOM Level 0
- The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally specified)
of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape Navigator
version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0. In some
cases, attributes or methods have been included for reasons of
backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
- event
-
An event is the representation of some asynchronous occurrence
(such as a mouse click on the presentation of the element, or
the removal of child node from an element, or any of
unthinkably many other possibilities) that gets associated
with an event target.
- event target
-
The object to which an event
is targeted.
- local name
- A local name is the local part of a qualified
name.
This is called the local
part in Namespaces in XML [XML Namespaces].
- namespace URI
-
A namespace URI is a URI that identifies an XML
namespace. This is called the namespace name in
Namespaces in XML [XML Namespaces]. See also sections 1.3.2 "DOM
URIs" and 1.3.3 "XML
Namespaces" regarding URIs and namespace URIs
handling and comparison in the DOM APIs.
- target node
-
The target node is the node representing the event target to which an event is targeted using the DOM event
flow.
- target phase
-
The process by which an event can be handled by the event target.
- XML name
- See XML name in
the XML specification ([XML 1.0]).