The org.w3c.dom package provides APIs for manipulating DOM trees.

The following figure shows the flow of processing for applications that manipulate DOM trees.

Figure 2-7 Flow of processing for applications that manipulate DOM trees

For details on the org.w3c.dom package, see the following sections in the documentation W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification:

• 1.4 Fundamental Interfaces: Core Module
• 1.5 Extended Interfaces: XML Module
• G: Java Language Binding G.2 Other Core interfaces

For details on a coding sample for manipulating DOM trees, see 5.4 Sample Program that Uses the DOM Parser.