PBDOM is the PowerBuilder implementation of the Document Object Model (DOM), a programming interface defining the means by which XML documents can be accessed and manipulated.
Although PBDOM is not an implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) DOM API, it is very similar. The PBDOM PowerBuilder API can be used for reading, writing, and manipulating standard-format XML from within PowerScript code. PBDOM portrays an XML document as a collection of interconnected objects and provides intuitive methods indicating the use and functionality of each object.
PBDOM is also similar to JDOM, which is a Java-based document object model for XML files.
For more information about W3C DOM, go to the W3C Document Object Model website at http://www.w3.org/DOM/. For more information about JDOM, go to the JDOM website at http://www.jdom.org.
