XML DOM localName Property
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The localName property returns the local name (element name) of the selected
element
If the selected node is not an element or attribute, this property returns NULL.
Syntax
Example 1
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the local name from the first <book> element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.write(x.localName);
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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 local name from the last child node:
Example
//check if the last node is an element node
function get_lastchild(n)
{
x=n.lastChild;
while (x.nodeType!=1)
{
x=x.previousSibling;
}
return x;
}
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.documentElement;
lastNode=get_lastchild(x);
document.write(lastNode.localName);
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The output of the code above will be:
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