Document Object Model

DOM (1998) Document Object Model (DOM), retrieved January 15, 2008 from http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR

The first section opens with a brief synopsis of XML and its usage with other application strategies, and then presents information on XML concepts such as the hierarchical Document Object Model. The description of the Visual Basic reader and writer classes for XML, as well as Simple API for XML, clearly compares different models available for processing XML files.

The keystone of this architecture is the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) that reduces a Web page down to its most basic elements, allowing it to be reorganized or manipulated using JavaScript.

Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML as a W3C Recommendation.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), in partnership with NIST, released the first version of the Document Object Model (DOM) Conformance Test Suite, Level 1 Core.

According to Matt Malden, senior director of product marketing for Siebel's Call Center Web Services products, they have seen a "trend in consolidation of information and consistency of information across all channels." Drawing on its vast customer base, Siebel worked with more than 70 data customers on the Web/client application, the Siebel Smart Web Client, which in Siebel 7 uses Dynamic HTML (a combination of HTML, JavaScript and Document Object Model [DOM]).

Both are aimed at allowing data used to drive document composition processes to be transformed and outputted in XML, with the Data Parser product providing non-invasive parsing of flat-file data streams while XML Generator creates XML output using an XML document object model tree approach.

The World Wide Web Consortium is currently developing the Document Object Model (DOM), which is an object-oriented application interface for HTML and XML documents.