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102 ” DOM Extension<br />
ties include firstChild and lastChild. Leaf nodes are nodes that have no children,<br />
which can be checked using the hasChildNodes method of DOMNode.<br />
All nodes in a tree have a single parent node, <strong>with</strong> one exception: the root node<br />
from which all other nodes in the tree stem. If two nodes share the same parent,<br />
they are appropriately referred <strong>to</strong> as sibling nodes. This relationship is shown in the<br />
previousSibling and nextSibling properties in DOMNode.<br />
Lastly, child nodes of a node, child nodes of those child nodes, and so on are collectively<br />
known as descendant nodes. Likewise, the parent node of a node, that parent<br />
node’s parent node, and so on are collectively known as ances<strong>to</strong>r nodes.<br />
An example may help <strong>to</strong> showcase this terminology.<br />
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• html is the root node.<br />
• body is the first (and only) child of html.<br />
• ul is the first (and only) child of body.<br />
• The li nodes containing Foo and Bar are the first and last child nodes of ul<br />
respectively.<br />
• The li node containing Bar node is the next sibling of the li node containing<br />
Foo.<br />
• The li node containing Foo is likewise the previous sibling of the li node containing<br />
Bar.<br />
• The ul and li nodes are descendants of the body node.