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What is DOM?

Nov 21st, 2000 07:02
Michael Claßen,

The Document Object Model is a standard defined by the World-Wide-Web
commitee (W3C) for representing XML and HTML document in memory. This
has originally be used for manipulating HTML pages in a browser using
scripting langauges, but has recently moved into various server
applications for accessing XML and HTML documents in a random-access
fashion, for instance when cross-referencing a document. Most DOM
implementations hold the whole document tree in memory which makes this
method less applicable to large documents in these cases.