XML DOM getNamedItem() Method
Complete NamedNodeMap Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The getNamedItem() method returns the specified node.
Syntax
| Parameter |
Description |
| nodename |
The name of the node to retrieve |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc(), loops through the <book> elements and prints the
values of the category attributes:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
att=x.item(i).attributes.getNamedItem("category");
document.write(att.value + "<br />");
}
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The output of the code above will be:
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