The document discusses the XML Document Object Model (DOM). It introduces DOM as a W3C standard that builds a tree structure in memory to represent XML documents. The DOM provides an API for dynamically accessing and manipulating this tree. Key points covered include the node tree structure of a DOM document, common DOM classes and interfaces like Document and Node, and methods for traversing and modifying the DOM tree such as getElementsByTagName and setAttribute. The document includes an example of using the MSXML DOM parser to load an XML file and retrieve/display elements, attributes, and text values.