Glossary
- Editors
- Arnaud Le Hors, W3C and IBM
- Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc.
- Robert S. Sutor, IBM Research (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].