Moving to XML

The DOM: what is an Element?

• A 'tag'
• With 'attributes'
  • a namespace
• And 'contents'
  • other elements which are children of this element
  • text elements
• Constructed by calling the createElement( String tagName) method of the Document object
• Or in Jacquard, by calling the generate method of a class which implements the NodeGenerator interface
  • Usually a subclass of ElementGenerator

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