You Have Learned XML DOM, Now What?

XML DOM Summary

This tutorial has taught you how to access and manipulate XML documents.

You have learned that the XML DOM views XML documents as a tree structure of elements embedded within other elements. and that all elements can be accessed through the DOM tree. Their contents can be modified or deleted, and new elements can be created by the DOM.

You have learned about XML parsers, and how to load XML documents into the parser.

You have also been introduced to the most important DOM objects, and how to use them.

For more information on XML DOM, please look at our XML DOM examples.

Now You Know XML DOM, What's Next?

The next step is to learn about XSLT.

If you need to validate XML documents, the next step is to learn about DTD and XML Schema.

XSLT

XSLT is the style sheet language for XML files.

With XSLT you can transform XML documents into other formats, like XHTML.

If you want to learn more about XSLT, please visit our XSLT tutorial.

DTD

The purpose of a DTD is to define which elements and attributes that are legal in an XML document.

A DTD is used to validate XML data.

If you want to learn more about DTD, please visit our DTD tutorial.

XML Schema will replace DTD.

XML Schema is an XML-based alternative to DTD.

Unlike DTD, XML Schemas has support for data types and namespaces.

If you want to learn more about XML Schema, please visit our XML Schema tutorial.

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