9/40 - Beginning with XML DOM

After exploring the XML Introduction section in W3Schools, you will have learned that XML is a derived suggestion from W3Schools, as well as the fact that XML does nothing; it's stored and viewed as plain text. This allows for fast operating procedures regardless of the web browser.

Exploring the Different Methods

In the next few weeks, we will be looking into the abilities XML offers for web development in 2025. I decided to begin with the XML DOM.

"The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document." ~W3Schools

We also discovered in a previous post that the standard for manipulating XML Elements with the DOM is:

txt = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("car")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

This code retrieves the first Car from the Junkyard. The getElementByTagName("") retrieves all XML Objects associated with the tag <car>. The additional argument "[0]" was added to pull the first item from the XML DOM array.

XML DOM Nodes

The next post continues the example we created for my junkyard XML dataset. Specifically focusing on the ways to edit and update the values of pre-existing XML Object values within the DOM. You can read additional information by following the link here.