XML DOM childNodes Property

XML DOM childNodes Property

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Definition and Usage

The childNodes property returns a NodeList of child nodes for the specified node.

Syntax

nodeObject.childNodes

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Tips and Notes

Tip: Use the NodeLists's length property to determine the number of nodes in a node list. When you know the length of a node list, you can easily loop through it and extract the values you want!

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Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and displays the child nodes of the XML document:

Example xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml"); x=xmlDoc.childNodes; for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) { document.write("Nodename: " + x[i].nodeName); document.write(" (nodetype: " + x[i].nodeType + ")<br />"); } Output IE: Nodename: xml (nodetype: 7) Nodename: #comment (nodetype: 8) Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1) Output Mozilla (Firefox): Nodename: #comment (nodetype: 8) Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1) Try it yourself »