The DOM is a specification under development by the W3C that will allow all elements of a Web page (graphics, text, headlines, styles, etc.) to be manipulated and acted on by programmes and scripting languages (such as JavaScript and VBScript).
a garden-variety tree structure, where each node contains one of the components from an XML structure
a model of how the various HTML elements in a page (paragraphs, images, form fields, etc
A platform- and language-neutral way for a Web client to "see" a Web document. This affects how user interactions with the document are handled by JavaScript instructions. Netscape and Microsoft use incompatible document object models in their version 4.0 browsers.
A World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification that describes the structure of dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents in a way that allows them to be manipulated through a Web browser.
Formal definition of what XML syntax represents. Once a document is parsed, the DOM can be processed using script.
A means of addressing elements and attributes in a document from a processing application or scripts. The W3C has a Document Object Model Working Group that is developing a standard model for HTML and XML documents.
is an interface that defines the mechanisms for accessing data in a document. This allows programmers to create dynamic content with standardized tags. Currently the DOMs used by MSIE and Netscape are proprietary, but both will be standardized with the next releases.
An in-memory tree-based object representation of an XML document that enables programmatic access to its elements and attributes. The DOM object and its interface is a W3C recommendation. It specifies the Document Object Model of an XML Document including the APIs for programmatic access. DOM views the parsed document as a tree of objects.
(DOM) b . An API which provides an object representation of an XML document. The DOM API represents an XML document as a tree of nodes. Nodes may be created, queried, updated and deleted. See: Document, Tree, Simple API for XML (SAX) Links: W3C Document Object Model
A model in which the document or Web page is treated as an object repository. This model is developed by the DOM Working Group (DOM) of the W3C.
Mechanism whereby page elements (or document objets) are opened to scripting languages. This includes enviromental information such as current date and time, browser properties, window properties, and HTML elements.
Aka: the DOM. ... See also: the W3C DOM page.
The Document Object Model (DOM) is an application programming interface (API) for HTML and XML documents (Web pages). It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. 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. For more information: What is the Document Object Model? www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/introduction.html The Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1
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 provides a standard set of objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them. Vendors can support the DOM as an interface to their proprietary data structures and APIs, and content authors can write to the standard DOM interfaces rather than product-specific APIs, thus increasing interoperability on the Web.
An API for XML and HTML documents. The DOM is not part of JavaScript. JavaScript scripts within browsers have a binding to the DOM, whereby JavaScript can call DOM methods and otherwise interact with the DOM, and window is the global object.
The document object model (DOM) is the mechanism specified by the W3C for access and manipulation of XML documents. DOM works by reading the entire document into memory and constructing a tree from its contents. Then, contents of the tree can be manipulated (e.g., creation, elimination, or modification of tree elements) by an application program. DOM is memory intensive. For the handling of large documents that only need to be read and parsed, SAX is probably a much better method.
Used in DHTML, a model that specifies how to manipulate objects through script. For example you can open a new browser and control its functions.
Form of representation of structured documents as an object-oriented model; the official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for representing structured documents in a platform- and language-neutral manner. DOM is also the basis for a wide range of application programming interfaces, some of which are standardized by the W3C. See also DOMIT.
(DOM): Feature of DHTML that defines every item on a Web page as an object. 15.36
Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-independent standard object model for representing HTML or XML and related formats. Strictly speaking, one should refer to "the DOM", but in practice, the "the" article is usually dropped.