What's the difference between an element and a node in XML?

Question

I\'m working in Java with XML and I\'m wondering; what\'s the difference between an element and a node?

Answer 1

A Node is a part of the DOM tree, an Element is a particular type of Node

e.g. This is Text

You have a foo Element, (which is also a Node, as Element inherits from Node) and a Text Node 'This is Text', that is a child of the foo Element/Node