The Document interface represents the entire HTML or XML document. Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides the primary access to the document's data.
Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc. cannot exist outside the context of a Document, the Document interface also contains the factory methods needed to create these objects. The Node objects created have a ownerDocument attribute which associates them with the Document within whose context they were created.
The CoreDocumentImpl class only implements the DOM Core. Additional modules are supported by the more complete DocumentImpl subclass.
Note: When any node in the document is serialized, the entire document is serialized along with it.
@xerces.internal
@author Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
@author Joe Kesselman, IBM
@author Andy Clark, IBM
@author Ralf Pfeiffer, IBM
@version $Id: CoreDocumentImpl.java 327081 2005-10-21 03:29:39Z mrglavas $
@since PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.