XML DOM childNodes Property

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# XML DOM childNodes Property

Document Object

## Definition and Usage

The childNodes property returns a NodeList of child nodes for the document.

## Syntax

documentObject.childNodes

## Tips and Notes

Tip: Use the NodeLists's length property to determine the number of nodes in a node list. When you know the length of a node list, you can easily loop through it and extract the values you want!

## Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and displays the child nodes of the XML document:

## Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.childNodes;
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write("Nodename: " + x[i].nodeName);
document.write(" (nodetype: " + x[i].nodeType + ")
");
}

Output IE:

Nodename: xml (nodetype: 7)
Nodename: #comment (nodetype: 8)
Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1)

Output Mozilla (Firefox):

Nodename: #comment (nodetype: 8)
Nodename: bookstore (nodetype: 1)
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Display all child nodes of all the elements in the XML document

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