XML DOM documentElement Property


Document Object Reference Document Object

Definition and Usage

The documentElement property returns the root node of the document.

Syntax

documentObject.documentElement


Example

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

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.documentElement;

document.write("Nodename: " + x.nodeName + "
");
document.write("Nodevalue: " + x.nodeValue + "
");
document.write("Nodetype: " + x.nodeType);

Output:

Nodename: bookstore
Nodevalue: null
Nodetype: 1

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Document Object Reference Document Object

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