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Bringing the DOM to C# with a HTML5/CSS3 parser written in C#.
using AngleSharp.DOM.Html;
using System;

namespace AngleSharp.DOM
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides a number of methods for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance of the DOM.
    /// </summary>
    [DOM("DOMImplementation")]
    public sealed class DOMImplementation : IDOMImplementation
    {
        internal DOMImplementation()
        {
        }

        //TODO

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates an empty DocumentType node. Entity declarations and notations are not made available. Entity reference expansions and default attribute additions do not occur.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="qualifiedName">The qualified name of the document type to be created.</param>
        /// <param name="publicId">The external subset public identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="systemId">The external subset system identifier.</param>
        /// <returns>A new DocumentType node with Node.ownerDocument set to null.</returns>
        [DOM("createDocumentType")]
        public DocumentType CreateDocumentType(String qualifiedName, String publicId, String systemId)
        {
            return new DocumentType { PublicId = publicId, SystemId = systemId, NodeName = qualifiedName };
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a DOM Document object of the specified type with its document element.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="namespaceURI">The namespace URI of the document element to create or null.</param>
        /// <param name="qualifiedName">The qualified name of the document element to be created or null.</param>
        /// <param name="doctype">The type of document to be created or null.</param>
        /// <returns>A new Document object with its document element.</returns>
        [DOM("createDocument")]
        public Document CreateDocument(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, DocumentType doctype)
        {
            Document doc = null;

            if (Namespaces.Html == namespaceURI)
                doc = new HTMLDocument();
            else
                doc = new Document();

            doc.AppendChild(doctype);
            doc.NodeName = qualifiedName ?? doc.NodeName;
            return doc;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This method returns a specialized object which implements the specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, as specified in DOM Features. 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="feature">The name of the feature requested. Note that any plus sign "+" prepended to the name of the feature will be ignored since it is not significant in the context of this method.</param>
        /// <param name="version">This is the version number of the feature to test.</param>
        /// <returns>Returns an object which implements the specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, if any, or null if there is no object which implements interfaces associated with that feature.</returns>
        [DOM("getFeature")]
        public Object GetFeature(String feature, String version)
        {
            //TODO
            return null;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and version, as specified in DOM Features.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="feature">The name of the feature requested. Note that any plus sign "+" prepended to the name of the feature will be ignored since it is not significant in the context of this method.</param>
        /// <param name="version">This is the version number of the feature to test.</param>
        /// <returns>True if the feature is implemented in the specified version, false otherwise.</returns>
        [DOM("hasFeature")]
        public Boolean HasFeature(String feature, String version)
        {
            //TODO
            return false;
        }
    }
}

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Florian lives in Munich, Germany. He started his programming career with Perl. After programming C/C++ for some years he discovered his favorite programming language C#. He did work at Siemens as a programmer until he decided to study Physics.

During his studies he worked as an IT consultant for various companies. After graduating with a PhD in theoretical particle Physics he is working as a senior technical consultant in the field of home automation and IoT.

Florian has been giving lectures in C#, HTML5 with CSS3 and JavaScript, software design, and other topics. He is regularly giving talks at user groups, conferences, and companies. He is actively contributing to open-source projects. Florian is the maintainer of AngleSharp, a completely managed browser engine.

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