XML DOM nodeTypeProperty


Node object

Definition and Usage

The nodeType property returns the node type of a node.

Syntax

nodeObject.nodeType


Example

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xml" Load it into xmlDoc and display the node name and node type of the root node:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

document.write("Nodename: " + xmlDoc.nodeName);
document.write(" (nodetype: " + xmlDoc.nodeType);

Output:

Nodename: #document (nodetype: 9)

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