XML DOM getElementsByTagNameNS() Method
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Definition and Usage
The getElementsByTagNameNS() method returns a NodeList of all elements with a specified
name and namespace.
Syntax
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getElementsByTagNameNS(ns,name)
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| Parameter |
Description |
| ns | A string that specifies the namespace name to search for.
The value "*" matches all tags |
| name | A string that specifies the tagname to search for. The
value "*" matches all tags |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and adds an element node with a namespace to each <book> element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
var newel,newtext;
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
newel=xmlDoc.createElementNS('p','edition');
newtext=xmlDoc.createTextNode('First');
newel.appendChild(newtext);
x[i].appendChild(newel);
}
//Output all titles and editions
y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title");
z=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagNameNS("p","edition");
for (i=0;i<y.length;i++)
{
document.write(y[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write(" - ");
document.write(z[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write(" edition");
document.write("<br />");
}
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