XML DOM namespaceURI property
Definition and Usage
namespaceURI
The property returns the URI of the namespace of the selected element.
If the selected node is not an element or attribute, this property always returns NULL.
Syntax
elementNode.namespaceURI
Example
Below code loads "books_ns.xml" into xmlDoc and retrieves the namespace URI from the first <title> element:
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() { if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) { myFunction(this); } }; xhttp.open("GET", "books_ns.xml", true); xhttp.send(); function myFunction(xml) { var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML; var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("c:title")[0]; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x.namespaceURI; }