XML DOM getAttributeNode() Method


Element Object Reference Element Object

Definition and Usage

The getAttributeNode() method gets an attribute node by name from the current element.

Syntax

elementNode.getAttributeNode(name)

Parameter Description
name Required. Specifies the attribute node to get


Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets the "category" attribute from all <book> elements:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');

for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
attnode=x.item(i).getAttributeNode("category");
document.write(attnode.name);
document.write(" = ");
document.write(attnode.value);
document.write("
");
}

Output:

category = COOKING
category = CHILDREN
category = WEB
category = WEB

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