Highlights from the Level 1 DOM Specification
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(Unfortunately, exact property and method names depend on specific DOM API implementation)
interface Document : Node {
  readonly attribute  DocumentType         doctype;
  readonly attribute  DOMImplementation    implementation;
  readonly attribute  Element              documentElement;
  Element                   createElement(in DOMString tagName)
                                          raises(DOMException);
  DocumentFragment          createDocumentFragment();
  Text                      createTextNode(in DOMString data);
  Comment                   createComment(in DOMString data);
  CDATASection              createCDATASection(in DOMString data)
                                               raises(DOMException);
  ProcessingInstruction     createProcessingInstruction(in DOMString target, 
                                                        in DOMString data)
                                                        raises(DOMException);
  Attr                      createAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                            raises(DOMException);
  EntityReference           createEntityReference(in DOMString name)
                                                  raises(DOMException);
  NodeList                  getElementsByTagName(in DOMString tagname);
};

interface Node {
  // NodeType
  const unsigned short      ELEMENT_NODE       = 1;
  const unsigned short      ATTRIBUTE_NODE     = 2;
  const unsigned short      TEXT_NODE          = 3;
  const unsigned short      CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
  const unsigned short      ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5;
  const unsigned short      ENTITY_NODE        = 6;
  const unsigned short      PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
  const unsigned short      COMMENT_NODE       = 8;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_NODE      = 9;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;
  const unsigned short      DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
  const unsigned short      NOTATION_NODE      = 12;

  readonly attribute  DOMString            nodeName;
           attribute  DOMString            nodeValue;
                                                 // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                                 // raises(DOMException) on retrieval
  readonly attribute  unsigned short       nodeType;
  readonly attribute  Node                 parentNode;
  readonly attribute  NodeList             childNodes;
  readonly attribute  Node                 firstChild;
  readonly attribute  Node                 lastChild;
  readonly attribute  Node                 previousSibling;
  readonly attribute  Node                 nextSibling;
  readonly attribute  NamedNodeMap         attributes;
  readonly attribute  Document             ownerDocument;
  Node                      insertBefore(in Node newChild, 
                                         in Node refChild)
                                         raises(DOMException);
  Node                      replaceChild(in Node newChild, 
                                         in Node oldChild)
                                         raises(DOMException);
  Node                      removeChild(in Node oldChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  Node                      appendChild(in Node newChild)
                                        raises(DOMException);
  boolean                   hasChildNodes();
  Node                      cloneNode(in boolean deep);
};

interface NodeList {
  Node                      item(in unsigned long index);
  readonly attribute  unsigned long        length;
};

interface NamedNodeMap {
  Node                      getNamedItem(in DOMString name);
  Node                      setNamedItem(in Node arg)
                                         raises(DOMException);
  Node                      removeNamedItem(in DOMString name)
                                            raises(DOMException);
  Node                      item(in unsigned long index);
  readonly attribute  unsigned long        length;
};

interface CharacterData : Node {
           attribute  DOMString            data;
                                 // raises(DOMException) on setting
                                 // raises(DOMException) on retrieval
  readonly attribute  unsigned long        length;
  DOMString                 substringData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                          in unsigned long count)
                                          raises(DOMException);
  void                      appendData(in DOMString arg)
                                       raises(DOMException);
  void                      insertData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                       in DOMString arg)
                                       raises(DOMException);
  void                      deleteData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                       in unsigned long count)
                                       raises(DOMException);
  void                      replaceData(in unsigned long offset, 
                                        in unsigned long count, 
                                        in DOMString arg)
                                        raises(DOMException);
};

interface Attr : Node {
  readonly attribute  DOMString            name;
  readonly attribute  boolean              specified;
           attribute  DOMString            value;
};

interface Element : Node {
  readonly attribute  DOMString            tagName;
  DOMString                 getAttribute(in DOMString name);
  void                      setAttribute(in DOMString name, 
                                         in DOMString value)
                                         raises(DOMException);
  void                      removeAttribute(in DOMString name)
                                            raises(DOMException);
  Attr                      getAttributeNode(in DOMString name);
  Attr                      setAttributeNode(in Attr newAttr)
                                             raises(DOMException);
  Attr                      removeAttributeNode(in Attr oldAttr)
                                                raises(DOMException);
  NodeList                  getElementsByTagName(in DOMString name);
  void                      normalize();
};

interface Text : CharacterData {
  Text                      splitText(in unsigned long offset)
                                      raises(DOMException);
};

interface Comment : CharacterData {
};

interface CDATASection : Text {
};
IDL code snippets copied from http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/, Copyright © 1998 World Wide Web Consortium , (Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique , Keio University ). All Rights Reserved. Status of this document is a w3c recommendation.
 
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