XML DOM localName property

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Definition and usage

The localName property can return the local part of a node name.

Syntax:

nodeObject.localName

Example

In all examples, we will use the XML file books_ns.xml, and the JavaScript function loadXMLDoc().

The following code snippet can return the local name of the <title> element:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books_ns.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('title');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  {
  document.write(x.item(i).localName);
  document.write("<br />");
  }

Output:

title
title

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