Creates a new DOM document object for the Arbortext Editor document doc and returns the DOM document object's ID. If doc is omitted, the function uses the returned value of current_doc.

The optional interface parameter specifies the Application Programming Interface that the DOM object will support. If omitted, it defaults to dom L1 V1.0, meaning Version 1.0 of Level 1 of the W3C Document Object Model.

If an error occurs, this function returns the value h::NullDOMId.

After creating a DOM document object with dom_document and finding the object's address with dom_address, the ACL programmer can pass the address to an external dynamically-loaded C++ program using dl_call.