Inside XML

Navigating in XML Documents

As you saw earlier in Table 11.4, the Node interface contains all the standard W3C DOM methods for navigating in a document that we've already used with JavaScript in Chapter 7, including getNextSibling, getPreviousSibling, getFirstChild, getLastChild, and getParent. You can put those methods to work here as easily as in Chapter 7; for example, here's the XML document that we navigated through in Chapter 7, meetings.xml:

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <MEETINGS> <MEETING TYPE="informal"> <MEETING_TITLE>XML In The Real World</MEETING_TITLE> <MEETING_NUMBER>2079</MEETING_NUMBER> <SUBJECT>XML</SUBJECT> <DATE>6/1/2002</DATE> <PEOPLE> <PERSON ATTENDANCE="present"> <FIRST_NAME>Edward</FIRST_NAME> <LAST_NAME>Samson</LAST_NAME> </PERSON> ...