DOM – Document Object Module

According to the DOM, everything in an XML document is a node.
The DOM says:

• The entire document is a document node
• Every XML element is an element node
• The text in the XML elements are text nodes
• Every attribute is an attribute node
• Comments are comment nodes

Example :

<Bollywood>
<Movie name="RaOne">
Going to release in Dec 2011
<Actor>
	Shahrukh Khan
</Actor>
<Production>
	Red Chilly
</Production>
</Movie>
</BollyWood>

As shown in above example and image:

• Parent Element name is “Movie”.
• This Element have attribute, which is “name” and attribute has a value “RaOne”.
• This Element has a text “Going to release in Dec2011″ which is Text Node.
• The element has two child nodes: Actor and Production which are known as Element Node.
• Element “Actor” has text node “Sharukh Khan” and Element “Production” has text node “Red Chilly”.