This tutorial is a simple introduction to DOM. There is a more in-depth and technical coverage of the DOM API in the "Complete DOM" tutorial.

Microsoft's MSXML parser is rich in functionality, but in some cases a full-featured parser is too large for resource-limited environments. Don't count XML out yet though; you can write your own lightweight VB XML parser in fewer than 400 lines of code!

In this first article of a three-part series, I offer a tutorial of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) with particular application to web services. Here we will discuss, explain, and demonstrate what DOM can do for the XML authoring and processing required by web service applications. We will consider each of the three DOM levels and apply the DOM functionality to explain why, when, and how to use the various features that W3C DOM offers. Each level provides a certain collection of XML authoring and processing features. Levels 1 and 2 have become W3C recommendations, while the third level is currently a working draft at W3C.

DOM, the so-called Document Object Model, is another name, in this context, for how XML can be read into memory as a tree/list and manipulated by a script or program. It's using a program, like Visual BASIC, to build or modify an XML document. The XML document can be cut and spliced, and parts of the list/tree can be located and changed with built-in routines. This is the kind of thing that would have been useful with HTML, and which might have been available at one point. But now you can take an XML document and read it into memory according to this 'Document Object Model'.

The following tutorials demonstrate common DOM tasks.

This tutorial is intended for developers who wish to extract data from a database and insert it into XML files so that it can be processed in some way, usually by transforming it into HTML using an XSL file.

In this section of the tutorial, you'll construct a Document Object Model (DOM) by reading in an existing XML file. In the following sections, you'll see how to display the XML in a Swing tree component and practice manipulating the DOM.

DOM powerpoint Tutorial.

How XPath Works. Writing Out a DOM as an XML File.

This tutorial covers the basics of XML DOMs. Before reading this tutorial you should already be familiar with XML and DTDs. You may want to read my XML and DTD tutorials. Click the above links to do so.

This section covers the node object.

The Microsoft XML parser is a COM component that comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. Once you have installed IE 5.0, the parser is available to scripts inside HTML documents and ASP files.

The XML Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for XML documents. It defines the way an XML document can be accessed and manipulated.

The XML Document Object Model is a programming interface for XML documents.The DOM defines the way an XML document can be accessed and manipulated.