DocumentType in DOM Level 2 Core
The DocumentType interface represents general entities and notations declared in the document type definition
Inherits from:
For official information please see http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#ID-412266927.
Instance Properties
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| nodeName | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| nodeValue | String | [from Node] |
| nodeType | Number | (read only) [from Node] |
| parentNode | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| childNodes | NodeList | (read only) [from Node] |
| firstChild | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| lastChild | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| previousSibling | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| nextSibling | Node | (read only) [from Node] |
| attributes | NamedNodeMap | (read only) [from Node] |
| ownerDocument | Document | (read only) [from Node] |
| namespaceURI | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| prefix | String | [from Node] |
| localName | String | (read only) [from Node] |
| name | String | (read only) |
| entities | NamedNodeMap | (read only) |
| notations | NamedNodeMap | (read only) |
| publicId | String | (read only) |
| systemId | String | (read only) |
| internalSubset | String | (read only) |
Instance Methods
| name | returns | description |
|---|---|---|
| insertBefore() | Node | [from Node] |
| replaceChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| removeChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| appendChild() | Node | [from Node] |
| cloneNode() | Node | Return a new copy of the node. [from Node] |
| isSupported() | Boolean | [from Node] |
| hasChildNodes() | Boolean | [from Node] |
| normalize() | (none) | [from Node] |
| hasAttributes() | Boolean | [from Node] |
Description
Each Document has a doctype attribute whose value is either null or a DocumentType object. The DocumentType interface in the DOM Core provides an interface to the list of entities that are defined for the document, and little else because the effect of namespaces and the various XML schema efforts on DTD representation are not clearly understood as of this writing.
The DOM Level 2 doesn't support editing DocumentType nodes.
Methods that return a DocumentType
| name | of object | description |
|---|---|---|
| createDocumentType() | DOMImplementation |
Arguments that are a DocumentType
| name | in method | of object | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| doctype | createDocument() | DOMImplementation |