XML DOM nodeTypeProperty
Element object
Definition and Usage
The nodeType property returns the node type of the selected node.
Syntax
elementNode.nodeType
| Number of nodes: | Node name: |
|---|---|
| 1 | Element |
| 2 | Attribute |
| 3 | Text |
| 4 | CDATA Section |
| 5 | Entity Reference |
| 6 | Entity |
| 7 | Processing Instruction |
| 8 | Comment |
| 9 | Document |
| 10 | Document Type |
| 11 | Document Fragment |
| 12 | Notation |
Example
The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xmlLoad into xmlDoc and get the node type from the first <title> element:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write(x.nodeType);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write(x.nodeType);
The above code will output:
1
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