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XML DOM getElementsByTagNameNS() Method


Element Object Reference Element Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books_ns.xml" into xmlDoc and gets an element by tag name and namespace:

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

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagNameNS("http://www.w3schools.com/children/", "title");
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x[0].nodeName;
}

The output of the code above will be:

c:title
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Definition and Usage

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

Syntax

elementNode.getElementsByTagNameNS(ns,name)

Parameter Description
ns A string that specifies the namespace to search for. The value "*" matches all tags
name A string that specifies the tagname to search for. The value "*" matches all tags

Element Object Reference Element Object