January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
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Getting Elements by Name
So far in this chapter, I've used navigation methods such as nextSibling and nextChild to move through XML documents. However, you can also get individual elements by searching for them by name. Here's an example. In this case, I'll use the document object's getElementsByTagName method to return a node list object holding all elements of a given name. In particular, I'm searching for <FIRST_NAME> and <LAST_NAME> elements, so I get lists of those elements like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Reading XML element values
</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function loadDocument()
{
var xmldoc, listNodesFirstName, listNodesLastName
xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmldoc.load("ch07_01.xml")
listNodesFirstName ...