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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

NodeIterator — iterate through a filtered sequence of Document nodes

Availability

DOM Level 2 Traversal

Properties

readonly boolean expandEntityReferences

Whether this NodeIterator traverses the children of EntityReference nodes (in XML documents). The value is specified as an argument to Document.createNodeIterator( ) when the NodeIterator is first created.

readonly NodeFilter filter

The node filter function that was specified for this NodeIterator in the call to Document.createNodeIterator( ).

readonly Node root

The root node at which the NodeIterator begins iterating. The value of this property is specified in the call to Document.createNodeIterator( ).

readonly unsigned long whatToShow

A set of bit flags (see NodeFilter for a list of valid flags) that specifies what types of Document nodes this NodeIterator will consider. If a bit is not set in this property, the corresponding node type will always be ignored by this NodeIterator. Note that the value of this property is specified in the call to Document.createNodeIterator( ).

Methods

detach( )

“Detaches” this NodeIterator from its document so that the implementation no longer needs to modify the NodeIterator when the document is modified. Call this method when you are done using a NodeIterator. After detach( ) has been called, any calls to other NodeIterator methods will cause exceptions.

nextNode( )

Returns the next node in the filtered sequence of nodes represented by this NodeIterator, or null if the NodeIterator ...

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