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Node Object
Definition and Usage
The parentNode property returns the parent node of a node.
Syntax
nodeObject.parentNode
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and returns the parent node of the first <title> element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
The output of the code above will be:
Parent node: book
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