# Package org.w3c.dom

Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM).

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- Interface Summary
  Interface | 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.
  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.
  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.

- Exception Summary
  Exception | Description
  --- | ---
  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).

## Package org.w3c.dom Description

Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM). Supports the Document Object Model Level 2 Core APIi, Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core, and Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save.

Since:
  JDK1.4

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