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XML DOM - Model

The document describes the XML DOM model, which represents an XML document as nodes in a tree structure. The DOM model defines the interfaces and relationships between these node objects, including parent nodes, child nodes, attribute nodes, text nodes, and sibling nodes.

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XML DOM - Model

The document describes the XML DOM model, which represents an XML document as nodes in a tree structure. The DOM model defines the interfaces and relationships between these node objects, including parent nodes, child nodes, attribute nodes, text nodes, and sibling nodes.

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XML DOM - Model

Now that we know what DOM means, let's see what a DOM structure is. A DOM document is a
collection of nodes or pieces of information, organized in a hierarchy. Some types of nodes may
have child nodes of various types and others are leaf nodes that cannot have anything under
them in the document structure. Following is a list of the node types, with a list of node types
that they may have as children −

Document − Element (maximum of one), ProcessingInstruction, Comment,


DocumentType (maximum of one)
DocumentFragment − Element, ProcessingInstruction, Comment, Text,
CDATASection, EntityReference
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

Example
Consider the DOM representation of the following XML document node.xml.

<?xml version = "1.0"?>

<Company>

<Employee category = "technical">

<FirstName>Tanmay</FirstName>

<LastName>Patil</LastName>

<ContactNo>1234567890</ContactNo>

</Employee>

<Employee category = "non-technical">

<FirstName>Taniya</FirstName>

<LastName>Mishra</LastName>

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<ContactNo>1234667898</ContactNo>

</Employee>

</Company>

The Document Object Model of the above XML document would be as follows −

From the above flowchart, we can infer −


Node object can have only one parent node object. This occupies the position above all
the nodes. Here it is Company.
The parent node can have multiple nodes called the child nodes. These child nodes
can have additional nodes called the attribute nodes. In the above example, we have
two attribute nodes Technical and Non-technical. The attribute node is not actually a
child of the element node, but is still associated with it.
These child nodes in turn can have multiple child nodes. The text within the nodes is
called the text node.
The node objects at the same level are called as siblings.
The DOM identifies −
the objects to represent the interface and manipulate the document.
the relationship among the objects and interfaces.

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