XML DOM length attribute

Definition and Usage

length The property returns the length of the node text (in characters).

Syntax

textNode.length

Example

The following code loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and prints the text node data and length 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 + " - Length: " + x.length;
}

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