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A quick introduction to the document object model

A quick introduction to the document object model

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A quick introduction to the document object model

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- In the first few chapters of this course, we learned the basics of XML and saw how to create XML content. We also used CSS to give the XML a visual appearance in a webpage. Over the next several chapters, we're going to examine different ways of processing XML content using a variety of different technologies and approaches. In this chapter, we'll see how to use the document object model or the DOM to exercise much more granular control over XML content. I'll be using the standard APIs that are available in the browser, but you're not limited to the browser. There are other implementations of the document model that you can use in many other languages and systems both on the client as well as the service side. And so what that means, just to be clear, is that you're going to have to be comfortable working with HTML and JavaScript for this part of the course. The document object model is a standard set of APIs or functions for working with document content, it is platform browser and…

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