XML DOM ownerDocumentProperty


Element object

Definition and Usage

The ownerDocument property returns the document object to which the selected element belongs.

Syntax

elementNode.ownerDocument

Example

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xmlLoad it into xmlDoc, and retrieve the name and node type from the owner document of the first <title> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
x=x.ownerDocument;

document.write("Nodename: " + x.nodeName);
document.write(" (nodetype: " + x.nodeType + ")");

The code above will output:

Nodename: #document (nodetype: 9)

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