XML DOM attributes Property
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The attributes property returns a NamedNodeMap (attribute list) containing the attributes of
the selected node
If the selected node is not an element, this property returns NULL.
Syntax
Tips and Notes
Tip: This property only works on element nodes.
Example 1
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the number of attributes in the first <title> element in "books.xml":
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
document.write(x.length);
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The output of the code above will be:
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Example 2
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the value of the "category"
attribute in the first <book> element":
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
att=x.getNamedItem("category");
document.write(att.value);
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The output of the code above will be:
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