XML DOM hasChildNodes() Method
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The hasChildNodes() method returns TRUE if the current element node has child
nodes, and FALSE otherwise.
Syntax
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elementNode.hasChildNodes() |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and checks if the first <book> element
has any child nodes:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.write(x.hasChildNodes());
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Output:
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