XML DOM parentNodeProperty
Node object
Definition and Usage
The parentNode property returns the parent node of a node.
Syntax
nodeObject.parentNode
Example
The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xmlLoad into xmlDoc, and return the parent node of the first <title> element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
The above code will output:
Parent node: book
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