XML DOM documentElement Property

❮ Document Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the location of the XML document:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
   if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
       myFunction(this);
   }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.documentElement;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    "Nodename: " + x.nodeName + "<br>" +
    "Nodevalue: " + x.nodeValue + "<br>" +
    "Nodetype: " + x.nodeType;
}

Output:

Nodename: bookstore
Nodevalue: null
Nodetype: 1

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Definition and Usage

The documentElement property returns the root node of the document.

Syntax

documentObject.documentElement

❮ Document Object

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