Name

NamedNodeMap

Synopsis

The NamedNodeMap interface provides a mechanism used to retrieve Node objects from a collection by name. Although this interface exposes the same methods and attributes as the NodeList class, they are not related. While it is possible to enumerate the nodes in a NamedNodeMap using the item( ) method and length attribute, the nodes are not guaranteed to be in any particular order.

Java example

// Get an element's attributes
NamedNodeMap nnm = elem.getAttributes( );

Attribute

The NamedNodeMap defines one attribute:

Get XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.