XML DOM nodeName Property

Definition and Usage

nodeName The attribute returns the tag name of the selected element.

Syntax

elementNode.nodeName

Example

The following code loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and retrieves the tag name 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.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x.nodeName;
}

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