XML DOM childNodes Property
Document Object
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the child nodes of the XML document:
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
myFunction(xhttp);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
var x, i, xmlDoc, txt;
xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
txt = "";
x = xmlDoc.childNodes;
for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
txt += "Nodename: " + x[i].nodeName
+
" (nodetype: " + x[i].nodeType
+ ")";
}
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML
= txt;
}
The output of the code above will be:
Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1)
Output IE9 and earlier:
Nodename: xml (nodetype: 7)
Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1)
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Definition and Usage
The childNodes property returns a NodeList of child nodes for the document.
Syntax
documentObject.childNodes
Tips and Notes
Tip: Use the NodeLists's length property to determine the number of nodes in a node list. When you know the length of a node list, you can easily loop through it and extract the values you want!
Document Object
