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XML DOM - Get Node

In this chapter, we will study about how to get the node value of a XML DOM object. XML
documents have a hierarchy of informational units called nodes. Node object has a property
nodeValue, which returns the value of the element.
In the following sections, we will discuss −
Getting node value of an element

Getting attribute value of a node


The node.xml used in all the following examples is as below −

<Company>

<Employee category = "Technical">

<FirstName>Tanmay</FirstName>

<LastName>Patil</LastName>

<ContactNo>1234567890</ContactNo>

<Email>[email protected]</Email>

</Employee>

<Employee category = "Non-Technical">

<FirstName>Taniya</FirstName>

<LastName>Mishra</LastName>

<ContactNo>1234667898</ContactNo>

<Email>[email protected]</Email>

</Employee>

<Employee category = "Management">

<FirstName>Tanisha</FirstName>

<LastName>Sharma</LastName>

<ContactNo>1234562350</ContactNo>

<Email>[email protected]</Email>

</Employee>

</Company>

Get Node Value


The method getElementsByTagName() returns a NodeList of all the Elements in document
order with a given tag name.

Example

The following example (getnode_example.htm) parses an XML document (node.xml ) into an


XML DOM object and extracts the node value of the child node Firstname (index at 0) −

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<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

<script>

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {

xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

} else{

xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

xmlhttp.open("GET","/dom/node.xml",false);

xmlhttp.send();

xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML;

x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('FirstName')[0]

y = x.childNodes[0];

document.write(y.nodeValue);

</script>

</body>

</html>

Execution

Save this file as getnode_example.htm on the server path (this file and node.xml should be on
the same path in your server). In the output, we get the node value as Tanmay.

Get Attribute Value

Attributes are part of the XML node elements. A node element can have multiple unique
attributes. Attribute gives more information about XML node elements. To be more precise, they
define properties of the node elements. An XML attribute is always a name-value pair. This
value of the attribute is called the attribute node.
The getAttribute() method retrieves an attribute value by element name.

Example

The following example (get_attribute_example.htm) parses an XML document (node.xml )


into an XML DOM object and extracts the attribute value of the category Employee (index at 2)
−

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

<script>

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {

xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

} else {
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

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xmlhttp.open("GET","/dom/node.xml",false);

xmlhttp.send();

xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML;

x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Employee')[2];

document.write(x.getAttribute('category'));

</script>

</body>

</html>

Execution

Save this file as get_attribute_example.htm on the server path (this file and node.xml should be
on the same path in your server). In the output, we get the attribute value as Management.

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