Introduction to the DOM

MSXML 5.0 SDK

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - DOM Developer's Guide

Introduction to the DOM

The Document Object Model (DOM) presents an easily processed standardized interpretation of an XML document to applications and scripts. The DOM implementation in Microsoft® XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office allows you to load or create a document; gather errors, if any; access and manipulate the information and structures contained within the document; and save the document back out to an XML file, if necessary.

This introduction contains the following topics:

See Also

IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap | selectNodes Method | transformNode Method | XML DOM Enumerated Constants | Template-Driven Transformations | Using XPath Expressions to Select Nodes | Using Namespaces in Documents