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Week 5 – XML DOM WebApp : XML - based Web Application

XML DOM

• XML DOM stands for XML Document Object Model .


• It is the foundation of XML which contains a set of standard functions for accessing and
manipulating contents in an XML document .

XML DOM Tree Structure


• XML DOM is presented in a tree structure .
• A tree structure revolves around hierarchical information units called nodes .
● Types of nodes
● ocument node
● Element node
● Text nodes
● Attribute Nodes
● Comment Nodes

Relationship of Nodes

• A node in a tree structure follows a hierarchical relationship .


Basic Terminologies
• Parent node
• Child node
• Sibling nodes
• Root node
• Leaf node
XML DOM Properties
Below is a list of XML DOM Properties
• nodeName - The name of the node .
• nodeType – The node’s type
• nodeValue – Value of the node
• attributes – An array of attributes and values
• parentNode – This returns the parent of a node . It returns null if there is no parent
• childNodes – array of child nodes
• firstchild , lastchild – references the first and last child of a node
• previousSibling , nextSibling – references the previous and next sibling of a node
• appendChild () – inserts an element at the end of a given element’s children
• removeChild () – removes an element from the parent
• insertBefore () – inserts a new node before the given node
• replaceChild () – replaces an existing node inside the parent with a new one .
• documentElement () – references the root document element
• createElement () – creates a new element that can be inserted in the document
• createTextNoe () – creates a new text node .
• createComment () – creates a new comment
• createCDATASection () - creates a new CDATA Section
• getElementsByTagName () – returns array of tags that match given tag name
• getElementById () - returns a single element with a given ID
• getAttribute () – gets the value of a given attribute on an element
• setAttribute () – sets the value of an attribute on an element
• removeAttribute () – removes an attribute from an element
• innerHTML – gets or sets the HTML content of the given tag
• data – gets the text data of an Element, Comment, or Text node
Week 6 – Using XML DOM

Accessing a Node

Using looping

Creating and Adding a Node


Using createElement () function

Other useful XML DOM functions for creating and adding nodes
• createAttribute – used for creating attributes for elements
• setAttribute – used for setting attribute values
• createText – used for creating text nodes
• createComment – used creating comment nodes
Removing and replacing a node
Removing a node

Replacing a node

Changing Text node value


• You can change text node values directly using the nodevalue property .
Week 7 – Introduction to XPath

XPath
• XPath is a standard way of accessing/selecting data in XML .
• It is a fundamental part of other XML related technologies such as XSLT and
XQuery .

Xpath Nodes
• XPath is also based around nodes .
• The XPath Nodes concept and relationship is similar to XML DOM nodes .

W3C Recommended
• The XPath is a W3C standard .

XPath Application
• XPath defines paths on XML documents.
• These paths are similar to the directories we use to access files on our computers.
XPath Path Expressions
The following are some of the path expressions used in XPath

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