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XML DOM lookupNamespaceURI() Method


Element Object Reference Element Object

Definition and Usage

The lookupNamespaceURI() method returns the namespace matching the specified prefix on the current node.

Syntax

elementNode.lookupNamespaceURI(prefix)

Parameter Description
prefix Required. A string that specifies prefix to find


Example

The following code fragment loads "books_ns.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and finds the namespace URI for the "c" prefix in the first <book> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_ns.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];

document.write(x.lookupNamespaceURI("c"));

Output:

http://www.w3schools.com/children/

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Element Object Reference Element Object
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