XML DOM lookupPrefix()Methods


Node object

Definition and Usage

The lookupPrefix() method returns the prefix that matches the specified namespace on a node.

Syntax

nodeObject.lookupPrefix(URI)

Parameter Description
URI Required. Namespace URI.


Example

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books_ns.xml" Load into xmlDoc, and find the prefix of the namespace URI that the first <book> element belongs to:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_ns.xml"); x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0]; document.write(x.lookupPrefix("https://www.example.com/w3cnote/"));

Output:

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