Question about the dom spec

I am developing a Java program that uses DOM, and I have a question:

When we refer to an HTML document in a scripting language, why do we
not say HTMLDocument.whatever instead of document.whatever?  If
someone could explain that to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Received on Friday, 27 November 1998 22:08:50 UTC