org.w3c.dom (Java SE 21 & JDK 21)
Description: declaration: module: java.xml, package: org.w3c.dom
Keywords: org.w3c.dom package

Module java.xml

# Package org.w3c.dom

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

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- Class
  Description
  Attr
  The `Attr` interface represents an attribute in an `Element` object.
  CDATASection
  CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup.
  CharacterData
  The `CharacterData` interface extends Node with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM.
  Comment
  This interface inherits from `CharacterData` and represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '`<!--`' and ending '`-->`'.
  Document
  The `Document` interface represents the entire HTML or XML document.
  DocumentFragment
  `DocumentFragment` is a "lightweight" or "minimal" `Document` object.
  DocumentType
  Each `Document` has a `doctype` attribute whose value is either `null` or a `DocumentType` object.
  DOMConfiguration
  The `DOMConfiguration` interface represents the configuration of a document and maintains a table of recognized parameters.
  DOMError
  `DOMError` is an interface that describes an error.
  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).
  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).
  DOMImplementation
  The `DOMImplementation` interface provides a number of methods for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance of the document object model.
  DOMImplementationList
  The `DOMImplementationList` interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of DOM implementations, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.
  DOMImplementationSource
  This interface permits a DOM implementer to supply one or more implementations, based upon requested features and versions, as specified in DOM Features.
  DOMLocator
  `DOMLocator` is an interface that describes a location (e.g.
  DOMStringList
  The `DOMStringList` interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of `DOMString` values, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.
  Element
  The `Element` interface represents an element in an HTML or XML document.
  ElementTraversal
  The `ElementTraversal` interface is a set of read-only attributes which allow an author to easily navigate between elements in a document.
  Entity
  This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document.
  EntityReference
  `EntityReference` nodes may be used to represent an entity reference in the tree.
  NamedNodeMap
  Objects implementing the `NamedNodeMap` interface are used to represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name.
  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.
  Node
  The `Node` interface is the primary datatype for the entire Document Object Model.
  NodeList
  The `NodeList` interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection is implemented.
  Notation
  This interface represents a notation declared in the DTD.
  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.
  Text
  The `Text` interface inherits from `CharacterData` and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an `Element` or `Attr`.
  TypeInfo
  The `TypeInfo` interface represents a type referenced from `Element` or `Attr` nodes, specified in the schemas associated with the document.
  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.