DOM in a Nutshell

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM

(with apologies to Stanley Kubrick)

One of the most powerful features in ATF is its Document Object Model, hereafter known as the DOM.

In a nutshell: The ATF DOM is a framework for managing application data as a tree of nodes that can be adapted to other objects, edited, monitored, and stored persistently.

This guide shows you what the DOM is and how to use it. It does not explain everything about the DOM, but helps you create a mental framework where you can visualize all the various features and ways of working with the DOM. This is a practical guide, illustrating concepts with examples from the ATF samples. It illustrates common practices for using the DOM.

The ATF DOM is not related to the W3C DOM, nor is it limited to XML DOM concepts.

For more details on the DOM and how to use it, download the ATF Programmer's Guide: Document Object Model (DOM) from ATF Documentation.

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