XML DOM parentNodeProperty
Element object
Definition and Usage
The parentNode property returns the parent node of the specified element.
Syntax
elementNode.parentNode
Example
The following code snippet usesloadXMLDoc()put "books.xml"Load into xmlDoc, and get the parent node from the first <title> element in "books.xml":"
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
parent=x.parentNode;
document.write("Parent node: " + parent.nodeName);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
parent=x.parentNode;
document.write("Parent node: " + parent.nodeName);
The above code will output:
Parent node: book
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