XML DOM attributesProperty


Element object

Definition and Usage

The attributes property returns a NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of the selected node.

If the selected node is not an element, this property returns NULL.

Syntax

elementNode.attributes


Tips and notes

Tip:This property is used only for element nodes.


Example 1

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xml" Load into xmlDoc, and get the number of attributes of the first <title> element in "books.xml":

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
document.write(x.length);

The above code will output:

1

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Example 2

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xml" Load into xmlDoc, and get the value of the "category" attribute in the first <book> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
att=x.getNamedItem("category");

document.write(att.value);

The above code will output:

COOKING

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