According to the XML DOM, everything in an XML document is a node:
The DOM defines a standard for accessing and manipulating documents:
“The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document.”
The HTML DOM defines a standard way for accessing and manipulating HTML documents. It presents an HTML document as a tree-structure.
The XML DOM defines a standard way for accessing and manipulating XML documents. It presents an XML document as a tree-structure.
Understanding the DOM is a must for anyone working with HTML or XML.
