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 <reference id="ref.dom">
  <title>DOM Functions</title>
  <titleabbrev>DOM</titleabbrev>

  <partintro>
   <section id="dom.intro">
    &reftitle.intro;
    <para>
     The DOM extension is the replacement for the
     <link linkend="ref.domxml">DOM XML</link> extension from PHP 4.
     The extension still contains many old functions, but they should no
     longer be used. In particular, functions that are not object-oriented
     should be avoided.
    </para>
    <para>
     The extension allows you to operate on an XML document with the DOM API.
    </para>
   </section>

   &reference.dom.constants;

   <section id="dom.classes">
    <title>Classes</title>
    <para>
     The API of the module follows the DOM Level 2 standard as closely
     as possible. Consequently, the API is fully object-oriented.
     It is a good idea to have the DOM standard available when
     using this module.
    </para>
    <para>
     This module defines a number of classes, which are listed -
     including their
     method - in the following tables. Classes with an equivalent in the
     DOM standard are named DOMxxx.
    </para>
 
    <para>
    <table>
     <title>List of classes</title>
     <tgroup cols="2">
      <thead>
       <row>
        <entry>Class name</entry>
        <entry>Parent classes</entry>
       </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMAttr</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMCDataSection</entry>
        <entry>DOMText</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMCharacterData</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMComment</entry>
        <entry>DOMCharacterData</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMDocument</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMDocumentFragment</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMDocumentType</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMElement</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMEntity</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMEntityReference</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMNotation</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMProcessingInstruction</entry>
        <entry>DOMNode</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMText</entry>
        <entry>DOMCharacterData</entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMException</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMImplementation</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMNamedNodeMap</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMNodeList</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
        <entry>DOMXPath</entry>
        <entry></entry>
       </row>
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
    </para>
   </section>

  </partintro>

&reference.dom.functions;

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