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module java.xml

Package org.w3c.dom

Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM). Supports the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification, Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification, and Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification.

API Note

The documentation comments for the get and set methods within this API are written as property definitions and are shared between both methods. These methods do not follow the standard Java SE specification format.

Take the Node TextContent property as an example, both getTextContent and setTextContent shared the same content that defined the TextContent property itself.

Since
1.4

Interface Summary

Modifier and TypeInterface and Description
public interface
Attr

The Attr interface represents an attribute in an Element object.

public interface
CDATASection

CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup.

public interface
CharacterData

The CharacterData interface extends Node with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM.

public interface
Comment

This interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '<!--' and ending '-->'.

public interface
Document

The Document interface represents the entire HTML or XML document.

public interface
DocumentFragment

DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object.

public interface
DocumentType

Each Document has a doctype attribute whose value is either null or a DocumentType object.

public interface
DOMConfiguration

The DOMConfiguration interface represents the configuration of a document and maintains a table of recognized parameters.

public interface
DOMError

DOMError is an interface that describes an error.

public interface
DOMErrorHandler

DOMErrorHandler is a callback interface that the DOM implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating a document).

public 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.

public interface
DOMImplementationList

The DOMImplementationList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of DOM implementations, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.

public interface
DOMImplementationSource

This interface permits a DOM implementer to supply one or more implementations, based upon requested features and versions, as specified in DOM Features.

public interface
DOMLocator

DOMLocator is an interface that describes a location (e.g. where an error occurred).

public interface
DOMStringList

The DOMStringList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of DOMString values, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.

public interface
Element

The Element interface represents an element in an HTML or XML document.

public interface
ElementTraversal

The ElementTraversal interface is a set of read-only attributes which allow an author to easily navigate between elements in a document.

public interface
Entity

This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document.

public interface
EntityReference

EntityReference nodes may be used to represent an entity reference in the tree.

public interface
NamedNodeMap

Objects implementing the NamedNodeMap interface are used to represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name.

public interface
NameList

The NameList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of parallel pairs of name and namespace values (which could be null values), without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.

public interface
Node

The Node interface is the primary datatype for the entire Document Object Model.

public interface
NodeList

The NodeList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.

public interface
Notation

This interface represents a notation declared in the DTD.

public interface
ProcessingInstruction

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a "processing instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in the text of the document.

public interface
Text

The Text interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr.

public interface
TypeInfo

The TypeInfo interface represents a type referenced from Element or Attr nodes, specified in the schemas associated with the document.

public interface
UserDataHandler

When associating an object to a key on a node using Node.setUserData() the application can provide a handler that gets called when the node the object is associated to is being cloned, imported, or renamed.

Class Summary

Modifier and TypeClass and Description
public class
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).