DOM(document object model) 的语言独立性？

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维基百科中关于DOM的介绍这样写到：The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent application programming interface that treats an HTML, XHTML, or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document. The objects can be manipulated programmatically and any visible changes occurring as a result may then be reflected in the display of the document.[2]其中的"language-independent"该怎么理解，为什么说dom是"language-independent"的？