XML DOM baseURI Property

Definition and Usage

baseURI Attribute returns the location (URI) of the xml document.

Syntax

elementNode.baseURI

Example

The following code loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the location of the XML document:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
   if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
       myFunction(this);
   {}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Document location: " + x.baseURI;
{}

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