XML DOM attributes property
Definition and Usage
The 'attributes' property returns a NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of the selected node.
If the selected node is not an element, this property returns NULL.
Syntax:
elementNode.attributes
Tips and Comments
Tip:This attribute is only used for element nodes.
Instance
In all the examples, we will use the XML file books.xml, as well as the JavaScript function loadXMLDoc().
Example 1
The following code snippet gets the number of attributes of the first <title> element in "books.xml":
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
document.write(x.length);
The output of the above code is:
1
Example 2
The following code snippet outputs the value of the "category" attribute of the first <book> element:
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0].attributes;
var att=x.getNamedItem("category");
document.write(att.value);
The output of the above code is:
COOKING
