What is the DOM?

The Document Object Model (DOM) provides a standard programming model for working with XML. It is fully described in the W3C DOM specification.

The DOM was designed to:

• Provide a standard way to programmatically build, navigate or update and transform the contents of XML documents
• Establish a core set of vendor-and language-neutral application programming interfaces that could be used to meet the most common needs for developers working with and generating well-formed XML and HTML input and output streams

See Also

Concepts | How Do I?

Other Resources

W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification (Second Edition)