13 November, 2000

# Glossary

Editors
  Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
  Lauren Wood, SoftQuad Software Inc.
  Robert S. Sutor, IBM (for DOM Level 1)

Several of the following term definitions have been borrowed or modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents. See the links within the definitions for more information.

ancestor
  An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
child
  A child is an immediate descendant node of a node.
descendant
  A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
DOM Level 0
  The term "DOM Level 0" refers to a mix (not formally specified) of HTML document functionalities offered by Netscape Navigator version 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0. In some cases, attributes or methods have been included for reasons of backward compatibility with "DOM Level 0".
sibling
  Two nodes are siblings if and only if they have the same parent node.
tokenized
  The description given to various information items (for example, attribute values of various types, but not including the StringType CDATA) after having been processed by the XML processor. The process includes stripping leading and trailing white space, and replacing multiple space characters by one. See the definition of tokenized type.
XML name
  See XML name in the XML specification [XML].