A small JavaScript DOM. Implements DOM level 1, with textContent from level 3 and innerHTML and outerHTML getters. Only supports HTML documents.

Usage

var minidom = require("minidom");

var document = minidom('<!doctype><html><head><title>Hello</title><body><h1>Hi!</h1></body></html>');

expect(document.getElementsByTagName("h1")[0].textContent).toEqual("Hi!");

You can also access the DOM implementation used internally:

var dom = require("minidom/dom");

var document = minidom();
expect(document instanceof dom.Node).toBeTruthy();

Differences with JSDom

	JSDom	minidom
Runs Javascript in the page context	Yes	No
CSSOM	Yes	No
Loads remote resources	Yes	No
HTML5 parsing algorithm	No	Yes*
Runs in the browser	No	Yes**
Awesome	Yes	Yes

Basically minidom does a lot less, but often it's all you need.

_{* This means that the DOM representation is the same as you would get in the browser, but may not be suitable if you wish to preserve as much of the original formatting as possible. For example parsing <body>hi</body><head><title>hello</title> with minidom results in a document that looks like <html><head></head><body>hi<title>hello</title></body></html> , where as JSDom outputs <html><body>hi</body><head><title>hello</title></head></html>.}

_{** This is probably very cool, although I have no idea why.}

Supported API

Properties marked ⃠ are read-only

Node

ELEMENT_NODE
ATTRIBUTE_NODE
TEXT_NODE
CDATA_SECTION_NODE
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
ENTITY_NODE
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
COMMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
NOTATION_NODE
children ⃠
nodeValue
parentNode ⃠
nodeName ⃠
attributes ⃠
firstChild ⃠
ownerDocument ⃠
readonly ⃠
lastChild ⃠
childNodes ⃠
nextSibling ⃠
previousSibling ⃠
insertBefore(/* Node */ newChild, /* Node*/ refChild)
replaceChild(/* Node */ newChild, /* Node */ oldChild)
removeChild(/* Node */ oldChild)
appendChild(/* Node */ newChild)
hasChildNodes()
cloneNode(/* bool */ deep, fn)
normalize()
toString()
raise(type, message, data)
textContent

Document (inherits from Node)

nodeType
contentType ⃠
doctype
documentElement ⃠
implementation
nodeName ⃠
tagName ⃠
nodeValue
attributes ⃠
ownerDocument ⃠
readonly ⃠
createElement(/* string */ tagName)
createDocumentFragment()
createTextNode(/* string */ data)
createComment(/* string */ data)
createCDATASection(/* string */ data)
createProcessingInstruction(/* string */ target, /* string */ data)
createAttribute(/* string */ name)
createEntityReference(/* string */ name)
createEntityNode(/* string */ name)
createNotationNode(/* string */ name, /* string */ publicId, /* string */ systemId)
appendChild(/* Node */ arg)
removeChild(/* Node */ arg)
getElementsByTagName(/* string */ name)
outerHTML ⃠

Element (inherits from Node)

nodeValue
tagName ⃠
nodeType
attributes ⃠
getAttribute(/* string */ name)
setAttribute(/* string */ name, /* string */ value)
removeAttribute(/* string */ name)
getAttributeNode(/* string */ name)
setAttributeNode(/* Attr */ newAttr)
removeAttributeNode(/* Attr */ oldAttr)
getElementsByTagName(/* string */ name)
outerHTML ⃠
innerHTML ⃠

Thanks

Made possible with large excerpts from JSDom, and the excellent parse5 implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm.

License

MIT license. See LICENSE.md for details.

Keywords

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Last updated on 17 Feb 2015

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