XML DOM length Property
Complete NodeList Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The length property returns the number of nodes in a node list.
Syntax
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the number of <title> elements:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('title');
document.write("Number of title elements: " + x.length);
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The output of the code above will be:
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Number of title elements: 4
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length - Loop through the nodes in a node list
Complete NodeList Object Reference

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