XML DOM item()Methods


NamedNodeMap Object

Definition and Usage

The item() method returns the node at the specified index in the node list.

Syntax

item(index)

Parameter Description
index index.


Example

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xml"Load into xmlDoc, loop through the <book> elements and print the value of the category attribute:"

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml"); x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book'); for(i=0;i<x.length;i++) { att=x.item(i).attributes.getNamedItem("category"); document.write(att.value + "<br>"); }

The above code will output:

COOKING
CHILDREN
WEB
WEB

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item() - Loop through items in a node list

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