XML DOM childNodes Property
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The childNodes property returns a NodeList containing the child nodes of
the selected node
If the selected node has no children, this property returns a NodeList
containing no nodes.
Syntax
Tips and Notes
Tip: To loop through a childNodes list, it is more efficient to use the
nextSibling property than to explicitly use the childNodes list of the parent
object.
Example 1
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the text node from the first <title>
element in "books.xml":
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0];
document.write(x.nodeValue);
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The output of the code above will be:
Example 2
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the number of child nodes from the first
<book> element in "books.xml":
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].childNodes;
document.write(x.length);
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In Internet Explorer the output of the code above will be:
In Mozilla browsers the output of the code above will be:
Firefox, and most other browsers, will treat empty white-spaces or new lines
as text nodes, Internet Explorer will not. So, in the example
above, the output will be different.
To read more about the differences between browsers, visit our
DOM Browsers chapter in our XML DOM
Tutorial.
Try-It-Yourself Demos
getelemenstByTagname() and childNodes - Get an element's value
childNodes - Get the NodeList's length
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