XML DOM hasChildNodes()Methods
Node object
Definition and Usage
The hasChildNodes() method returns true when a node has child nodes, otherwise it returns false.
Syntax
nodeObject.hasChildNodes()
Example
The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xmlLoad into xmlDoc and return whether the first <book> element has child nodes:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.write(x.hasChildNodes());
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.write(x.hasChildNodes());
Output:
true
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