The document discusses the Document Object Model (DOM), which defines the logical structure of documents and allows programs to dynamically access and update document content and structure. It explains that the DOM represents an HTML or XML document as nodes that form a hierarchical tree structure. The DOM provides programming interfaces for accessing and modifying the document like getElementById() to get an element by ID, and properties for traversing the node tree like childNodes, parentNode, etc. It also gives an example of using the DOM to add two numbers from textbox inputs in JavaScript.