XML DOM getElementsByTagNameNS()Methods


Document object

Definition and Usage

The getElementsByTagNameNS() method returns a NodeList of all elements with the specified name and namespace.

Syntax

getElementsByTagNameNS(ns,name)

Parameter Description
ns String, specifies the namespace name to search. The value "*" matches all labels.
name String, specifies the tag name to search. The value "*" matches all tags.


Example

The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xmlLoad into xmlDoc, and add the element nodes with namespaces to each <book> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml"); x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book'); var newel,newtext; for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) { newel=xmlDoc.createElementNS("p","edition"); newtext=xmlDoc.createTextNode("First"); newel.appendChild(newtext); x[i].appendChild(newel); } //Output all title and edition y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title"); z=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagNameNS("p","edition"); for (i=0;i<y.length;i++) { document.write(y[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue); document.write(" - "); document.write(z[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue); document.write(" edition."); document.write(" Namespace: "); document.write(z[i].namespaceURI); document.write("<br>"); }

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