XML DOM data Attribute

Definition and Usage

data Sets or returns the text of an element or attribute.

Syntax

textNode.data

Example

The following code loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and outputs the text of 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].childNodes[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x.data;
{}

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