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 DOM Overview
The Document Object Model.
Defined by the World Wide Web Consortium.
An abstract API for accessing the contents of an XML document from within a program.
The abstractions are tree-centric.
They provide access to an object representing the root of a tree.
The application traverses the tree, stepping from node to node, extracting data from the nodes as needed.
Constraint: the whole tree must fit in a single JVM.