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XML DOM nodeType Property


Node Object Reference Node Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the node name and node type of the root node:

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 xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Nodename: " + xmlDoc.nodeName +
    " (nodetype: " + xmlDoc.nodeType + ")";
}

The output of the code above will be:

Nodename: #document (nodetype: 9)
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Definition and Usage

The nodeType property returns the node type of a node.


Syntax

nodeObject.nodeType

Node Object Reference Node Object