XML DOM localName Property
❮ Element Object
Example 1
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the local name from the first <book> element:
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.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
x.localName;
}
The output of the code above will be:
book
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Definition and Usage
The localName property returns the local name (element name) of the selected element
If the selected node is not an element or attribute, this property returns NULL.
Syntax
elementNode.localName
Example 2
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the local name from the last child node:
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
myFunction(this);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
//
Check if the last node is an element node
function get_lastchild(n) {
var x = n.lastChild;
while (x.nodeType != 1) {
x = x.previousSibling;
}
return
x;
}
function myFunction(xml) {
var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
var x = xmlDoc.documentElement;
var lastNode =
get_lastchild(x);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML
=
lastNode.localName;
}
The output of the code above will be:
book
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❮ Element Object
