4 Package DOM APIs for C

This implementation follows REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001. Because the DOM standard is object-oriented, some changes were made for C language adaptation.

• Reused function names have to be expanded; getValue in the Attr interface has the unique name XmlDomGetAttrValue that matches the pattern established by DOM 2's getNodeValue.

• Functions were added to extend the DOM beyond the standard; one example is XmlDomNumChildNodes, which returns the number of children of a node.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Attr Interface

• CharacterData Interface

• Document Interface

• DocumentType Interface

• Element Interface

• Entity Interface

• NamedNodeMap Interface

• Node Interface

• NodeList Interface

• Notation Interface

• ProcessingInstruction Interface

• Text Interface