Why doesn't Node.js have a native DOM?

Question

When I discovered that Node.js was built using the V8 JavaScript engine, I thought:

Great, web scraping will be easier as the page

Answer 1

If you read DOM as 'linked objects immediately accessible from my script' then the answer 'it does, but it's very different from set of objects available from web document script'. The main reason is that node is 'evented I/O for V8', not 'HTML tree objects for V8'