DOMDocument Class Referenceabstract

The `DOMDocument` interface represents the entire XML document. More...

`#include <xercesc/dom/DOMDocument.hpp>`

Inheritance diagram for DOMDocument:

## Public Member Functions

Destructor
virtual | ~DOMDocument ()
| Destructor.
Functions introduced in DOM Level 1
virtual DOMElement * | createElement (const XMLCh *tagName)=0
| Creates an element of the type specified.
virtual DOMDocumentFragment * | createDocumentFragment ()=0
| Creates an empty `DOMDocumentFragment` object.
virtual DOMText * | createTextNode (const XMLCh *data)=0
| Creates a `DOMText` node given the specified string.
virtual DOMComment * | createComment (const XMLCh *data)=0
| Creates a `DOMComment` node given the specified string.
virtual DOMCDATASection * | createCDATASection (const XMLCh *data)=0
| Creates a `DOMCDATASection` node whose value is the specified string.
virtual DOMProcessingInstruction * | createProcessingInstruction (const XMLCh *target, const XMLCh *data)=0
| Creates a `DOMProcessingInstruction` node given the specified name and data strings.
virtual DOMAttr * | createAttribute (const XMLCh *name)=0
| Creates an `DOMAttr` of the given name.
virtual DOMEntityReference * | createEntityReference (const XMLCh *name)=0
| Creates an `DOMEntityReference` object.
virtual DOMDocumentType * | getDoctype () const =0
| The Document Type Declaration (see `DOMDocumentType`) associated with this document.
virtual DOMImplementation * | getImplementation () const =0
| The `DOMImplementation` object that handles this document.
virtual DOMElement * | getDocumentElement () const =0
| This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the root element of the document.
virtual DOMNodeList * | getElementsByTagName (const XMLCh *tagname) const =0
| Returns a `DOMNodeList` of all the `DOMElement(s)` with a given tag name in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the `DOMDocument` tree.
Functions introduced in DOM Level 2.
virtual DOMNode * | importNode (const DOMNode *importedNode, bool deep)=0
| Imports a node from another document to this document.
virtual DOMElement * | createElementNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName)=0
| Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
virtual DOMAttr * | createAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName)=0
| Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
virtual DOMNodeList * | getElementsByTagNameNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName) const =0
| Returns a `DOMNodeList` of all the `DOMElement(s)` with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the `DOMDocument` tree.
virtual DOMElement * | getElementById (const XMLCh *elementId) const =0
| Returns the `DOMElement` whose `ID` is given by `elementId`.
Functions introduced in DOM Level 3.
virtual const XMLCh * | getInputEncoding () const =0
| An attribute specifying the encoding used for this document at the time of the parsing.
virtual const XMLCh * | getXmlEncoding () const =0
| An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document.
virtual bool | getXmlStandalone () const =0
| An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone.
virtual void | setXmlStandalone (bool standalone)=0
| An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone.
virtual const XMLCh * | getXmlVersion () const =0
| An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document.
virtual void | setXmlVersion (const XMLCh *version)=0
| An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document.
virtual const XMLCh * | getDocumentURI () const =0
| The location of the document or `null` if undefined.
virtual void | setDocumentURI (const XMLCh *documentURI)=0
| The location of the document or `null` if undefined.
virtual bool | getStrictErrorChecking () const =0
| An attribute specifying whether errors checking is enforced or not.
virtual void | setStrictErrorChecking (bool strictErrorChecking)=0
| An attribute specifying whether errors checking is enforced or not.
virtual DOMNode * | renameNode (DOMNode *n, const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName)=0
| Rename an existing node.
virtual DOMNode * | adoptNode (DOMNode *source)=0
| Changes the `ownerDocument` of a node, its children, as well as the attached attribute nodes if there are any.
virtual void | normalizeDocument ()=0
| This method acts as if the document was going through a save and load cycle, putting the document in a "normal" form.
virtual DOMConfiguration * | getDOMConfig () const =0
| The configuration used when DOMDocument::normalizeDocument is invoked.
Non-standard extension
virtual DOMEntity * | createEntity (const XMLCh *name)=0
| Non-standard extension.
virtual DOMDocumentType * | createDocumentType (const XMLCh *name)=0
| Non-standard extension.
virtual DOMDocumentType * | createDocumentType (const XMLCh *qName, const XMLCh *, const XMLCh *)
virtual DOMNotation * | createNotation (const XMLCh *name)=0
| Non-standard extension.
virtual DOMElement * | createElementNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName, const XMLFileLoc lineNum, const XMLFileLoc columnNum)=0
| Non-standard extension.
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMDocumentRange
virtual | ~DOMDocumentRange ()
| Destructor.
virtual DOMRange * | createRange ()=0
| To create the range consisting of boundary-points and offset of the selected contents.
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMXPathEvaluator
virtual | ~DOMXPathEvaluator ()
| Destructor.
virtual DOMXPathExpression * | createExpression (const XMLCh *expression, const DOMXPathNSResolver *resolver)=0
| Creates a parsed XPath expression with resolved namespaces.
virtual DOMXPathNSResolver * | createNSResolver (const DOMNode *nodeResolver)=0
| Adapts any DOM node to resolve namespaces so that an XPath expression can be easily evaluated relative to the context of the node where it appeared within the document.
virtual DOMXPathResult * | evaluate (const XMLCh *expression, const DOMNode *contextNode, const DOMXPathNSResolver *resolver, DOMXPathResult::ResultType type, DOMXPathResult *result)=0
| Evaluates an XPath expression string and returns a result of the specified type if possible.
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMDocumentTraversal
virtual | ~DOMDocumentTraversal ()
| Destructor.
virtual DOMNodeIterator * | createNodeIterator (DOMNode *root, DOMNodeFilter::ShowType whatToShow, DOMNodeFilter *filter, bool entityReferenceExpansion)=0
| Creates a NodeIterator object.
virtual DOMTreeWalker * | createTreeWalker (DOMNode *root, DOMNodeFilter::ShowType whatToShow, DOMNodeFilter *filter, bool entityReferenceExpansion)=0
| Creates a TreeWalker object.
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
virtual | ~DOMNode ()
| Destructor.
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeName () const =0
| The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeValue () const =0
| Gets the value of this node, depending on its type.
virtual NodeType | getNodeType () const =0
| An enum value representing the type of the underlying object.
virtual DOMNode * | getParentNode () const =0
| Gets the parent of this node.
virtual DOMNodeList * | getChildNodes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNodeList` that contains all children of this node.
virtual DOMNode * | getFirstChild () const =0
| Gets the first child of this node.
virtual DOMNode * | getLastChild () const =0
| Gets the last child of this node.
virtual DOMNode * | getPreviousSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately preceding this node.
virtual DOMNode * | getNextSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately following this node.
virtual DOMNamedNodeMap * | getAttributes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNamedNodeMap` containing the attributes of this node (if it is an `DOMElement`) or `null` otherwise.
virtual DOMDocument * | getOwnerDocument () const =0
| Gets the `DOMDocument` object associated with this node.
virtual DOMNode * | cloneNode (bool deep) const =0
| Returns a duplicate of this node.
virtual DOMNode * | insertBefore (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *refChild)=0
| Inserts the node `newChild` before the existing child node `refChild`.
virtual DOMNode * | replaceChild (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Replaces the child node `oldChild` with `newChild` in the list of children, and returns the `oldChild` node.
virtual DOMNode * | removeChild (DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Removes the child node indicated by `oldChild` from the list of children, and returns it.
virtual DOMNode * | appendChild (DOMNode *newChild)=0
| Adds the node `newChild` to the end of the list of children of this node.
virtual bool | hasChildNodes () const =0
| This is a convenience method to allow easy determination of whether a node has any children.
virtual void | setNodeValue (const XMLCh *nodeValue)=0
| Sets the value of the node.
virtual void | normalize ()=0
| Puts all `DOMText` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `DOMNode`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `DOMText` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `DOMText` nodes nor empty `DOMText` nodes.
virtual bool | isSupported (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and that feature is supported by this node.
virtual const XMLCh * | getNamespaceURI () const =0
| Get the namespace URI of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified.
virtual const XMLCh * | getPrefix () const =0
| Get the namespace prefix of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified.
virtual const XMLCh * | getLocalName () const =0
| Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
virtual void | setPrefix (const XMLCh *prefix)=0
| Set the namespace prefix of this node.
virtual bool | hasAttributes () const =0
| Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
virtual bool | isSameNode (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one.
virtual bool | isEqualNode (const DOMNode *arg) const =0
| Tests whether two nodes are equal.
virtual void * | setUserData (const XMLCh *key, void *data, DOMUserDataHandler *handler)=0
| Associate an object to a key on this node.
virtual void * | getUserData (const XMLCh *key) const =0
| Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node.
virtual const XMLCh * | getBaseURI () const =0
| The absolute base URI of this node or `null` if undefined.
virtual short | compareDocumentPosition (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Compares the reference node, i.e.
virtual const XMLCh * | getTextContent () const =0
| WARNING: This method is known to be buggy and does not produce accurate results under a variety of conditions.
virtual void | setTextContent (const XMLCh *textContent)=0
| This attribute removes any possible children this node may have and, if the new string is not empty or null, replaced by a single `DOMText` node containing the string this attribute is set to.
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupPrefix (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from this node.
virtual bool | isDefaultNamespace (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| This method checks if the specified `namespaceURI` is the default namespace or not.
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupNamespaceURI (const XMLCh *prefix) const =0
| Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from this node.
virtual void * | getFeature (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| This method makes available a `DOMNode`'s specialized interface.
virtual void | release ()=0
| Called to indicate that this Node (and its associated children) is no longer in use and that the implementation may relinquish any resources associated with it and its associated children.

## Protected Member Functions

Hidden constructors
| DOMDocument ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMDocumentRange
| DOMDocumentRange ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMXPathEvaluator
| DOMXPathEvaluator ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMDocumentTraversal
| DOMDocumentTraversal ()
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
| DOMNode ()
| DOMNode (const DOMNode &)

## Additional Inherited Members

Public Types inherited from DOMNode
enum | NodeType { ELEMENT_NODE = 1 , ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2 , TEXT_NODE = 3 , CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4 , ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5 , ENTITY_NODE = 6 , PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7 , COMMENT_NODE = 8 , DOCUMENT_NODE = 9 , DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10 , DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11 , NOTATION_NODE = 12 }
| NodeType. More...
enum | DocumentPosition { DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x01 , DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x02 , DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x04 , DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x08 , DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10 , DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20 }
| DocumentPosition: More...

## Detailed Description

The `DOMDocument` interface represents the entire XML document.

Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides the primary access to the document's data.

Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc. cannot exist outside the context of a `DOMDocument`, the `DOMDocument` interface also contains the factory methods needed to create these objects. The `DOMNode` objects created have a `ownerDocument` attribute which associates them with the `DOMDocument` within whose context they were created.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## DOMDocument()

DOMDocument::DOMDocument | ( |  | ) |

protected

## ~DOMDocument()

virtual DOMDocument::~DOMDocument | ( |  | ) |

virtual

Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

## adoptNode()

virtual DOMNode * DOMDocument::adoptNode | ( | DOMNode * | source | ) |

pure virtual

Changes the `ownerDocument` of a node, its children, as well as the attached attribute nodes if there are any.

If the node has a parent it is first removed from its parent child list. This effectively allows moving a subtree from one document to another. The following list describes the specifics for each type of node.

ATTRIBUTE_NODE
  The `ownerElement` attribute is set to `null` and the `specified` flag is set to `true` on the adopted `DOMAttr`. The descendants of the source `DOMAttr` are recursively adopted.
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
  The descendants of the source node are recursively adopted.
DOCUMENT_NODE
  `DOMDocument` nodes cannot be adopted.
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
  `DOMDocumentType` nodes cannot be adopted.
ELEMENT_NODE
  Specified attribute nodes of the source element are adopted, and the generated `DOMAttr` nodes. Default attributes are discarded, though if the document being adopted into defines default attributes for this element name, those are assigned. The descendants of the source element are recursively adopted.
ENTITY_NODE
  `DOMEntity` nodes cannot be adopted.
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
  Only the `DOMEntityReference` node itself is adopted, the descendants are discarded, since the source and destination documents might have defined the entity differently. If the document being imported into provides a definition for this entity name, its value is assigned.
NOTATION_NODE
  `DOMNotation` nodes cannot be adopted.
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE
  These nodes can all be adopted. No specifics.

Parameters

  source | The node to move into this document.

Returns
  The adopted node, or `null` if this operation fails, such as when the source node comes from a different implementation.

Exceptions

  DOMException | NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the source node is of type `DOCUMENT`, `DOCUMENT_TYPE`. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the source node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## createAttribute()

virtual DOMAttr * DOMDocument::createAttribute | ( | const XMLCh * | name | ) |

pure virtual

Creates an `DOMAttr` of the given name.

Note that the `DOMAttr` instance can then be set on an `DOMElement` using the `setAttributeNode` method.
To create an attribute with a qualified name and namespace URI, use the `createAttributeNS` method.

Parameters

  name | The name of the attribute.

Returns
  A new `DOMAttr` object with the `nodeName` attribute set to `name`, and `localName`, `prefix`, and `namespaceURI` set to `null`. The value of the attribute is the empty string.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createAttributeNS()

virtual DOMAttr * DOMDocument::createAttributeNS | ( | const XMLCh * | namespaceURI,
|  | const XMLCh * | qualifiedName
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI.

Parameters

  namespaceURI | The namespace URI of the attribute to create.
  qualifiedName | The qualified name of the attribute to instantiate.

Returns
  A new `DOMAttr` object with the following attributes:

  `Attribute` | `Value`
  `DOMNode.nodeName` | qualifiedName
  `DOMNode.namespaceURI` | `namespaceURI`
  `DOMNode.prefix` | prefix, extracted from `qualifiedName`, or `null` if there is no prefix
  `DOMNode.localName` | local name, extracted from `qualifiedName`
  `DOMAttr.name` | `qualifiedName`
  `DOMNode.nodeValue` | the empty string

Exceptions

  DOMException

  INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
  NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the `qualifiedName` is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix and the `namespaceURI` is `null`, if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix that is "xml" and the `namespaceURI` is different from " http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", or if the `qualifiedName`, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and the `namespaceURI` is different from " http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/".
  NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not support the `"XML"` feature, since namespaces were defined by XML.

Since
  DOM Level 2

## createCDATASection()

virtual DOMCDATASection * DOMDocument::createCDATASection | ( | const XMLCh * | data | ) |

pure virtual

Creates a `DOMCDATASection` node whose value is the specified string.

Parameters

  data | The data for the `DOMCDATASection` contents.

Returns
  The new `DOMCDATASection` object.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createComment()

virtual DOMComment * DOMDocument::createComment | ( | const XMLCh * | data | ) |

pure virtual

Creates a `DOMComment` node given the specified string.

Parameters

  data | The data for the node.

Returns
  The new `DOMComment` object.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createDocumentFragment()

virtual DOMDocumentFragment * DOMDocument::createDocumentFragment | ( |  | ) |

pure virtual

Creates an empty `DOMDocumentFragment` object.

Returns
  A new `DOMDocumentFragment`.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createDocumentType() [1/2]

virtual DOMDocumentType * DOMDocument::createDocumentType | ( | const XMLCh * | name | ) |

pure virtual

Non-standard extension.

Create a DOMDocumentType node.

Returns
  A `DOMDocumentType` that references the newly created DOMDocumentType node.

## createDocumentType() [2/2]

virtual DOMDocumentType * DOMDocument::createDocumentType | ( | const XMLCh * | qName,
|  | const XMLCh * | ,
|  | const XMLCh * |
| ) |  |

virtual

## createElement()

virtual DOMElement * DOMDocument::createElement | ( | const XMLCh * | tagName | ) |

pure virtual

Creates an element of the type specified.

Note that the instance returned implements the `DOMElement` interface, so attributes can be specified directly on the returned object.
In addition, if there are known attributes with default values, `DOMAttr` nodes representing them are automatically created and attached to the element.
To create an element with a qualified name and namespace URI, use the `createElementNS` method.

Parameters

  tagName | The name of the element type to instantiate. For XML, this is case-sensitive.

Returns
  A new `DOMElement` object with the `nodeName` attribute set to `tagName`, and `localName`, `prefix`, and `namespaceURI` set to `null`.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createElementNS() [1/2]

virtual DOMElement * DOMDocument::createElementNS | ( | const XMLCh * | namespaceURI,
|  | const XMLCh * | qualifiedName
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI.

Parameters

  namespaceURI | The namespace URI of the element to create.
  qualifiedName | The qualified name of the element type to instantiate.

Returns
  A new `DOMElement` object with the following attributes:

  `Attribute` | `Value`
  `DOMNode.nodeName` | `qualifiedName`
  `DOMNode.namespaceURI` | `namespaceURI`
  `DOMNode.prefix` | prefix, extracted from `qualifiedName`, or `null` if there is no prefix
  `DOMNode.localName` | local name, extracted from `qualifiedName`
  `DOMElement.tagName` | `qualifiedName`

Exceptions

  DOMException

  INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
  NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the `qualifiedName` is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix and the `namespaceURI` is `null`, or if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix that is "xml" and the `namespaceURI` is different from " http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" .
  NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not support the `"XML"` feature, since namespaces were defined by XML.

Since
  DOM Level 2

## createElementNS() [2/2]

virtual DOMElement * DOMDocument::createElementNS | ( | const XMLCh * | namespaceURI,
|  | const XMLCh * | qualifiedName,
|  | const XMLFileLoc | lineNum,
|  | const XMLFileLoc | columnNum
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Non-standard extension.

Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI, and also stores line/column number info. Used by internally XSDXercesDOMParser during schema traversal.

See also
  createElementNS(const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName)

## createEntity()

virtual DOMEntity * DOMDocument::createEntity | ( | const XMLCh * | name | ) |

pure virtual

Non-standard extension.

Create a new entity.

Parameters

  name | The name of the entity to instantiate

## createEntityReference()

virtual DOMEntityReference * DOMDocument::createEntityReference | ( | const XMLCh * | name | ) |

pure virtual

Creates an `DOMEntityReference` object.

In addition, if the referenced entity is known, the child list of the `DOMEntityReference` node is made the same as that of the corresponding `DOMEntity` node.If any descendant of the `DOMEntity` node has an unbound namespace prefix, the corresponding descendant of the created `DOMEntityReference` node is also unbound; (its `namespaceURI` is `null`). The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes.

Parameters

  name | The name of the entity to reference.

Returns
  The new `DOMEntityReference` object.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createNotation()

virtual DOMNotation * DOMDocument::createNotation | ( | const XMLCh * | name | ) |

pure virtual

Non-standard extension.

Create a Notation.

Parameters

  name | The name of the notation to instantiate

Returns
  A `DOMNotation` that references the newly created DOMNotation node.

## createProcessingInstruction()

virtual DOMProcessingInstruction * DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction | ( | const XMLCh * | target,
|  | const XMLCh * | data
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Creates a `DOMProcessingInstruction` node given the specified name and data strings.

Parameters

  target | The target part of the processing instruction.
  data | The data for the node.

Returns
  The new `DOMProcessingInstruction` object.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target contains an illegal character.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## createTextNode()

virtual DOMText * DOMDocument::createTextNode | ( | const XMLCh * | data | ) |

pure virtual

Creates a `DOMText` node given the specified string.

Parameters

  data | The data for the node.

Returns
  The new `DOMText` object.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getDoctype()

virtual DOMDocumentType * DOMDocument::getDoctype | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

The Document Type Declaration (see `DOMDocumentType`) associated with this document.

For XML documents without a document type declaration this returns `null`. The DOM Level 2 does not support editing the Document Type Declaration. `docType` cannot be altered in any way, including through the use of methods inherited from the `DOMNode` interface, such as `insertNode` or `removeNode`.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getDocumentElement()

virtual DOMElement * DOMDocument::getDocumentElement | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the root element of the document.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getDocumentURI()

virtual const XMLCh * DOMDocument::getDocumentURI | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

The location of the document or `null` if undefined.

Beware that when the `DOMDocument` supports the feature "HTML" , the href attribute of the HTML BASE element takes precedence over this attribute.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getDOMConfig()

virtual DOMConfiguration * DOMDocument::getDOMConfig | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

The configuration used when DOMDocument::normalizeDocument is invoked.

Returns
  The `DOMConfiguration` from this `DOMDocument`

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getElementById()

virtual DOMElement * DOMDocument::getElementById | ( | const XMLCh * | elementId | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns the `DOMElement` whose `ID` is given by `elementId`.

If no such element exists, returns `null`. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this `ID`. The DOM implementation must have information that says which attributes are of type ID. Attributes with the name "ID" are not of type ID unless so defined. Implementations that do not know whether attributes are of type ID or not are expected to return `null`.

Parameters

  elementId | The unique `id` value for an element.

Returns
  The matching element.

Since
  DOM Level 2

## getElementsByTagName()

virtual DOMNodeList * DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName | ( | const XMLCh * | tagname | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns a `DOMNodeList` of all the `DOMElement(s)` with a given tag name in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the `DOMDocument` tree.

The returned node list is "live", in that changes to the document tree made after a nodelist was initially returned will be immediately reflected in the node list.

Parameters

  tagname | The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.

Returns
  A new `DOMNodeList` object containing all the matched `DOMElement(s)`.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getElementsByTagNameNS()

virtual DOMNodeList * DOMDocument::getElementsByTagNameNS | ( | const XMLCh * | namespaceURI,
|  | const XMLCh * | localName
| ) |  | const

pure virtual

Returns a `DOMNodeList` of all the `DOMElement(s)` with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the `DOMDocument` tree.

Parameters

  namespaceURI | The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces.
  localName | The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names.

Returns
  A new `DOMNodeList` object containing all the matched `DOMElement(s)`.

Since
  DOM Level 2

## getImplementation()

virtual DOMImplementation * DOMDocument::getImplementation | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

The `DOMImplementation` object that handles this document.

A DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getInputEncoding()

virtual const XMLCh * DOMDocument::getInputEncoding | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

An attribute specifying the encoding used for this document at the time of the parsing.

This is `null` when it is not known, such as when the DOMDocument was created in memory.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getStrictErrorChecking()

virtual bool DOMDocument::getStrictErrorChecking | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

An attribute specifying whether errors checking is enforced or not.

When set to `false`, the implementation is free to not test every possible error case normally defined on DOM operations, and not raise any `DOMException`. In case of error, the behavior is undefined. This attribute is `true` by defaults.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getXmlEncoding()

virtual const XMLCh * DOMDocument::getXmlEncoding | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document.

This is `null` when unspecified or when it is not known, such as when the DOMDocument was created in memory.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getXmlStandalone()

virtual bool DOMDocument::getXmlStandalone | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone.

This is `false` when unspecified.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getXmlVersion()

virtual const XMLCh * DOMDocument::getXmlVersion | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document.

This is `null` when unspecified.
This attribute represents the property [version] defined in .

Since
  DOM Level 3

## importNode()

virtual DOMNode * DOMDocument::importNode | ( | const DOMNode * | importedNode,
|  | bool | deep
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Imports a node from another document to this document.

The returned node has no parent; (`parentNode` is `null`). The source node is not altered or removed from the original document; this method creates a new copy of the source node.
For all nodes, importing a node creates a node object owned by the importing document, with attribute values identical to the source node's `nodeName` and `nodeType`, plus the attributes related to namespaces (`prefix`, `localName`, and `namespaceURI`). As in the `cloneNode` operation on a `DOMNode`, the source node is not altered.
Additional information is copied as appropriate to the `nodeType`, attempting to mirror the behavior expected if a fragment of XML source was copied from one document to another, recognizing that the two documents may have different DTDs in the XML case. The following list describes the specifics for each type of node.

ATTRIBUTE_NODE
  The `ownerElement` attribute is set to `null` and the `specified` flag is set to `true` on the generated `DOMAttr`. The descendants of the source `DOMAttr` are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree. Note that the `deep` parameter has no effect on `DOMAttr` nodes; they always carry their children with them when imported.
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
  If the `deep` option was set to `true`, the descendants of the source element are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree. Otherwise, this simply generates an empty `DOMDocumentFragment`.
DOCUMENT_NODE
  `DOMDocument` nodes cannot be imported.
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
  `DOMDocumentType` nodes cannot be imported.
ELEMENT_NODE
  Specified attribute nodes of the source element are imported, and the generated `DOMAttr` nodes are attached to the generated `DOMElement`. Default attributes are not copied, though if the document being imported into defines default attributes for this element name, those are assigned. If the `importNode` `deep` parameter was set to `true`, the descendants of the source element are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree.
ENTITY_NODE
  `DOMEntity` nodes can be imported, however in the current release of the DOM the `DOMDocumentType` is readonly. Ability to add these imported nodes to a `DOMDocumentType` will be considered for addition to a future release of the DOM.On import, the `publicId`, `systemId`, and `notationName` attributes are copied. If a `deep` import is requested, the descendants of the the source `DOMEntity` are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree.
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
  Only the `DOMEntityReference` itself is copied, even if a `deep` import is requested, since the source and destination documents might have defined the entity differently. If the document being imported into provides a definition for this entity name, its value is assigned.
NOTATION_NODE
  `DOMNotation` nodes can be imported, however in the current release of the DOM the `DOMDocumentType` is readonly. Ability to add these imported nodes to a `DOMDocumentType` will be considered for addition to a future release of the DOM.On import, the `publicId` and `systemId` attributes are copied. Note that the `deep` parameter has no effect on `DOMNotation` nodes since they never have any children.
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
  The imported node copies its `target` and `data` values from those of the source node.
TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE
  These three types of nodes inheriting from `DOMCharacterData` copy their `data` and `length` attributes from those of the source node.

Parameters

  importedNode | The node to import.
  deep | If `true`, recursively import the subtree under the specified node; if `false`, import only the node itself, as explained above. This has no effect on `DOMAttr` , `DOMEntityReference`, and `DOMNotation` nodes.

Returns
  The imported node that belongs to this `DOMDocument`.

Exceptions

  DOMException | NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the type of node being imported is not supported.

Since
  DOM Level 2

## normalizeDocument()

virtual void DOMDocument::normalizeDocument | ( |  | ) |

pure virtual

This method acts as if the document was going through a save and load cycle, putting the document in a "normal" form.

The actual result depends on the features being set. See `DOMConfiguration` for details.

Noticeably this method normalizes `DOMText` nodes, makes the document "namespace wellformed", according to the algorithm described below in pseudo code, by adding missing namespace declaration attributes and adding or changing namespace prefixes, updates the replacement tree of `DOMEntityReference` nodes, normalizes attribute values, etc.
Mutation events, when supported, are generated to reflect the changes occurring on the document. Note that this is a partial implementation. Not all the required features are implemented. Currently `DOMAttr` and `DOMText` nodes are normalized. Features to remove `DOMComment` and `DOMCDATASection` work.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## renameNode()

virtual DOMNode * DOMDocument::renameNode | ( | DOMNode * | n,
|  | const XMLCh * | namespaceURI,
|  | const XMLCh * | qualifiedName
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Rename an existing node.

When possible this simply changes the name of the given node, otherwise this creates a new node with the specified name and replaces the existing node with the new node as described below. This only applies to nodes of type `ELEMENT_NODE` and `ATTRIBUTE_NODE`.
When a new node is created, the following operations are performed: the new node is created, any registered event listener is registered on the new node, any user data attached to the old node is removed from that node, the old node is removed from its parent if it has one, the children are moved to the new node, if the renamed node is an `DOMElement` its attributes are moved to the new node, the new node is inserted at the position the old node used to have in its parent's child nodes list if it has one, the user data that was attached to the old node is attach to the new node, the user data event `NODE_RENAMED` is fired.
When the node being renamed is an `DOMAttr` that is attached to an `DOMElement`, the node is first removed from the `DOMElement` attributes map. Then, once renamed, either by modifying the existing node or creating a new one as described above, it is put back.

Parameters

  n | The node to rename.
  namespaceURI | The new namespaceURI.
  qualifiedName | The new qualified name.

Returns
  The renamed node. This is either the specified node or the new node that was created to replace the specified node.

Exceptions

  DOMException

  NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised when the type of the specified node is neither `ELEMENT_NODE` nor `ATTRIBUTE_NODE`.
  WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised when the specified node was created from a different document than this document.
  NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the `qualifiedName` is malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix and the `namespaceURI` is `null`, or if the `qualifiedName` has a prefix that is "xml" and the `namespaceURI` is different from " http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" . Also raised, when the node being renamed is an attribute, if the `qualifiedName`, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and the `namespaceURI` is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/".

Since
  DOM Level 3

## setDocumentURI()

virtual void DOMDocument::setDocumentURI | ( | const XMLCh * | documentURI | ) |

pure virtual

The location of the document or `null` if undefined.

Beware that when the `DOMDocument` supports the feature "HTML" , the href attribute of the HTML BASE element takes precedence over this attribute.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## setStrictErrorChecking()

virtual void DOMDocument::setStrictErrorChecking | ( | bool | strictErrorChecking | ) |

pure virtual

An attribute specifying whether errors checking is enforced or not.

When set to `false`, the implementation is free to not test every possible error case normally defined on DOM operations, and not raise any `DOMException`. In case of error, the behavior is undefined. This attribute is `true` by defaults.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## setXmlStandalone()

virtual void DOMDocument::setXmlStandalone | ( | bool | standalone | ) |

pure virtual

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone.

This attribute represents the property [standalone] defined in .

Since
  DOM Level 3

## setXmlVersion()

virtual void DOMDocument::setXmlVersion | ( | const XMLCh * | version | ) |

pure virtual

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document.

This is `null` when unspecified.
This attribute represents the property [version] defined in .

Since
  DOM Level 3

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- DOMDocument.hpp