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13.5.2 Objects in the DOM

The definitive documentation for the DOM is the DOM specification from the W3C.

Note that DOM attributes may also be manipulated as nodes instead of as simple strings. It is fairly rare that you must do this, however, so this usage is not yet documented.

Interface	Section	Purpose
DOMImplementation	13.5.2	Interface to the underlying implementation.
Node	13.5.2	Base interface for most objects in a document.
NodeList	13.5.2	Interface for a sequence of nodes.
DocumentType	13.5.2	Information about the declarations needed to process a document.
Document	13.5.2	Object which represents an entire document.
Element	13.5.2	Element nodes in the document hierarchy.
Attr	13.5.2	Attribute value nodes on element nodes.
Comment	13.5.2	Representation of comments in the source document.
Text	13.5.2	Nodes containing textual content from the document.
ProcessingInstruction	13.5.2	Processing instruction representation.

An additional section describes the exceptions defined for working with the DOM in Python.

• 13.5.2.1 DOMImplementation Objects
• 13.5.2.2 Node Objects
• 13.5.2.3 NodeList Objects
• 13.5.2.4 DocumentType Objects
• 13.5.2.5 Document Objects
• 13.5.2.6 Element Objects
• 13.5.2.7 Attr Objects
• 13.5.2.8 NamedNodeMap Objects
• 13.5.2.9 Comment Objects
• 13.5.2.10 Text and CDATASection Objects
• 13.5.2.11 ProcessingInstruction Objects
• 13.5.2.12 Exceptions

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Release 2.1.3, documentation updated on April 8, 2002.