Editing XML (section)

=== Document Object Model ===
{{Main|Document Object Model}}

The [[Document Object Model]] (DOM) is an interface that allows for navigation of the entire document as if it were a tree of [[Node (computer science)|node]] [[Object (computer science)|objects]] representing the document's contents. A DOM document can be created by a parser, or can be generated manually by users (with limitations). Data types in DOM nodes are abstract; implementations provide their own programming language-specific [[language binding|bindings]]. DOM implementations tend to be [[memory]] intensive, as they generally require the entire document to be loaded into memory and constructed as a tree of objects before access is allowed.