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!xml.dom --- The Document Object Model API — Document Objects

A Document represents an entire XML document, including its constituent elements, attributes, processing instructions, comments etc.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). A Document represents an entire XML document, including its constituent elements, attributes, processing instructions, comments etc. Remember that it inherits properties from Node. The one and only root element of the document. Create and return a new element node. The element is not inserted into the document when it is created. You need to explicitly insert it with one of the other methods such as insertBefore or appendChild. Create and return a new element with a namespace. The tagName may have a prefix. The element is not inserted into the document when it is created. You need to explicitly insert it with one of the other methods such as insertBefore or appendChild. Create and return a text node containing the data passed as a parameter. As with the other creation methods, this one does not insert the node into the tree. Create and return a comment node containing the data passe Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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