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13.5.1 Module Contents

The xml.dom contains the following functions:

registerDOMImplementation(name, factory)

Register the factory function with the name name. The factory function should return an object which implements the DOMImplementation interface. The factory function can return the same object every time, or a new one for each call, as appropriate for the specific implementation (e.g. if that implementation supports some customization).

getDOMImplementation(name = None, features = ())

Return a suitable DOM implementation. The name is either well-known, the module name of a DOM implementation, or None. If it is not None, imports the corresponding module and returns a DOMImplementation object if the import succeeds. If no name is given, and if the environment variable PYTHON_DOM is set, this variable is used to find the implementation.

If name is not given, consider the available implementations to find one with the required feature set. If no implementation can be found, raise an ImportError. The features list must be a sequence of (feature, version) pairs which are passed to hasFeature.

In addition, xml.dom contains the Node, and the DOM exceptions.

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Release 2.1.3, documentation updated on April 8, 2002.