"""W3C Document Object Model implementation for Python.

The Python mapping of the Document Object Model is documented in the
Python Library Reference in the section on the xml.dom package.

This package contains the following modules:

minidom -- A simple implementation of the Level 1 DOM with namespace
           support added (based on the Level 2 specification) and other
           minor Level 2 functionality.

pulldom -- DOM builder supporting on-demand tree-building for selected
           subtrees of the document.

"""


class Node:
    """Class giving the NodeType constants."""

    # DOM implementations may use this as a base class for their own
    # Node implementations.  If they don't, the constants defined here
    # should still be used as the canonical definitions as they match
    # the values given in the W3C recommendation.  Client code can
    # safely refer to these values in all tests of Node.nodeType
    # values.

    ELEMENT_NODE                = 1
    ATTRIBUTE_NODE              = 2
    TEXT_NODE                   = 3
    CDATA_SECTION_NODE          = 4
    ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE       = 5
    ENTITY_NODE                 = 6
    PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7
    COMMENT_NODE                = 8
    DOCUMENT_NODE               = 9
    DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE          = 10
    DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE      = 11
    NOTATION_NODE               = 12