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DTD-Related Properties of the xmldom Object

This hour will conclude by presenting some additional properties of the xmldom object.

Table 5.4. Additional Properties of the xmldom Object

Property	Data Type	Contains
url	String	The URL of the most recently loaded document
validateOnParse	Boolean	If true, document is validated when parsed; if false, it isn't
xml	Text	The XML representation of the node
nodeType	Number	A numeric code that specifies the DOM type for the node

The possible values for the nodeType and their meanings are summarized in Table 5.5.

Table 5.5. Possible Values of the nodeType Property

Value	Corresponding Node Type
1	ELEMENT
2	ATTRIBUTE
3	TEXT
4	CDATA
5	ENTITY REFERENCE
6	ENTITY
7	PI (Processing instruction)
8	COMMENT
9	DOCUMENT
10	DOCUMENT TYPE (as found in the ...