Glossary
- Editors
- Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
- Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc.
- Robert S. Sutor, IBM (for DOM Level 1)
Several of the following term definitions have been borrowed or
modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards
documents. See the links within the definitions for more
information.
- ancestor
- An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a
tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the
root."
- child
- A child is an immediate descendant node of a
node.
- descendant
- A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a
tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the
root."
- DOM Level
0
- The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally
specified) of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape
Navigator version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.
In some cases, attributes or methods have been included for
reasons of backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
- sibling
- Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same
parent node.
- tokenized
- The description given to various information items (for
example, attribute values of various types, but not including the
StringType CDATA) after having been processed by the XML processor.
The process includes stripping leading and trailing white space,
and replacing multiple space characters by one. See the definition
of tokenized type.
- XML name
- See XML
name in the XML specification [XML].