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DOM Examples DOM ValidatorXML DOM Traverse Node Tree
Traversing means looping through or traveling across the node tree.
Traversing the Node Tree
Often you want to loop an XML document, for example: when you want to extract the value of each element.
This is called "Traversing the node tree"
The example below loops through all child nodes of <book>, and displays their names and values:
Example
<html>
<head>
<script src="loadxmlstring.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
text="<book>";
text=text+"<title>Everyday Italian</title>";
text=text+"<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>";
text=text+"<year>2005</year>";
text=text+"</book>";
xmlDoc=loadXMLString(text);
// documentElement always represents the root node
x=xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes;
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x[i].nodeName);
document.write(": ");
document.write(x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("
");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
<head>
<script src="loadxmlstring.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
text="<book>";
text=text+"<title>Everyday Italian</title>";
text=text+"<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>";
text=text+"<year>2005</year>";
text=text+"</book>";
xmlDoc=loadXMLString(text);
// documentElement always represents the root node
x=xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes;
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x[i].nodeName);
document.write(": ");
document.write(x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("
");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Output:
title: Everyday Italian
author: Giada De Laurentiis
year: 2005
author: Giada De Laurentiis
year: 2005
Try it yourself »
Example explained:
- loadXMLString() loads the XML string into xmlDoc
- Get the child nodes of the root element
- For each child node, output the node name and the node value of the text node
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