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XML DOM baseURI Property


Element Object Reference Element Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the location of the XML document:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
        myFunction(xhttp);
    }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Document location: " + x.baseURI;
}

The output of the code above will be:

Document location: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/books.xml
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Definition and Usage

The baseURI property returns the location (URI) of the xml document.

Syntax

elementNode.baseURI

Element Object Reference Element Object