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XML DOM prefix Property

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Definition and Usage

The prefix property returns namespace prefix for the selected element

If the selected node is not an element or attribute, this property always returns NULL.

Syntax

elementNode.prefix
 

Example

The following code fragment loads "books_ns.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets the namespace prefix from the first <title> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_ns.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];

document.write(x.prefix);

The output of the code above will be:

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