XML DOM nodeType Property
Element Object
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the node type from the first <title> element:
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("title")[0];
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
x.nodeType;
}
The output of the code above will be:
1
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Definition and Usage
The nodeType property returns node type of the selected node.
Syntax
elementNode.nodeType
| Node Number: | 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 |
Try-It-Yourself Demos
nodeType - Skip empty text nodes
Element Object
