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XML DOM hasChildNodes() Method


Node Object Reference Node Object

Definition and Usage

The hasChildNodes() method returns true if a node has any child nodes, otherwise it returns false.

Syntax

nodeObject.hasChildNodes()


Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and returns whether the first <book> element has any child nodes:

Example

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

document.write(x.hasChildNodes());

Output:

true

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Node Object Reference Node Object

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