Getting Elements by Name
So far in this chapter, I've used the navigation methods such as nextSibling and nextChild to navigate through XML documents. However, you can also get individual elements by searching for them by name. Here's an example; in this case, I'll use the document object's getElementsByTagName method to return a node list object holding all elements of a given name. In particular, I'm searching for <FIRST_NAME> and <LAST_NAME> elements, so I get lists of those elements like this:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Reading XML element values </TITLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> function loadDocument() { var xmldoc, listNodesFirstName, listNodesLastName xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") xmldoc.load("meetings.xml") listNodesFirstName ...Get Inside XML now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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