XML DOM nodeType Attribute
Definition and Usage
The nodeType property returns the node type of the selected node.
Syntax:
elementNode.nodeType
| Node Number: | Node Name: |
|---|---|
| 1 | Element |
| 2 | Attribute |
| 3 | Text |
| 4 | CDATA Section |
| 5 | Entity Reference |
| 6 | Entity |
| 7 | Processing Instruction |
| 8 | Comment |
| 9 | Document |
| 10 | Document Type |
| 11 | Document Fragment |
| 12 | Notation |
Example
In all examples, we will use the XML file books.xml, and the JavaScript function loadXMLDoc().
The following code snippet retrieves the node type of the first <title> element in "books.xml":
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write(x.nodeType);
The output of the above code is:
1
