FREE Web Template Download
HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT SQL PHP BOOTSTRAP JQUERY ANGULARJS TUTORIALS REFERENCES EXAMPLES Blog
 

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://tutorials/children/", "title");
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x[0].nodeName;
}

The output of the code above will be:

c:title
Try it Yourself »

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