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XML DOM documentElement Property

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Definition and Usage

The documentElement property returns the root node of the document.

Syntax

documentObject.documentElement

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and displays the location of the XML document:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.documentElement;

document.write("Nodename: " + x.nodeName + "<br />");
document.write("Nodevalue: " + x.nodeValue + "<br />");
document.write("Nodetype: " + x.nodeType);

Output:

Nodename: bookstore
Nodevalue: null
Nodetype: 1

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