Document |
the document itself |
Document Fragment |
some (or all) of a document |
Node |
an element, attribute, entity, or text |
Element |
another element, text, a comment, etc |
Text |
actual document content |
Attribute |
name="value" pair such as IMG's 'src' |
Processing instruction |
instructions for an XML parser |
Comments |
page-author comments |
Cdata section |
characters that do not include markup |
Entity |
a token to be expanded into a replacement string |
Entity Reference |
the token prefixed with the & character |
Document Type |
provides collections of entities within that document |