XML DOM nodeType Property
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The nodeType property returns node type of the selected node.
Syntax
| Node Number: |
Node Name: |
| 1 |
Element |
| 2 |
Attribute |
| 3 |
Text |
| 4 |
CDATA Section |
| 5 |
Entity Reference |
| 6 |
Entity |
| 7 |
Processing Instrucion |
| 8 |
Comment |
| 9 |
Document |
| 10 |
Document Type |
| 11 |
Document Fragment |
| 12 |
Notation |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the node type from the first <title>
element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write(x.nodeType);
|
The output of the code above will be:
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