DOM - The Node object

Take a look at the XML file used in the examples: note.xml

Examples

nodeName
How to return the name of a node.

nodeValue
How to return the value of a node.

nextSibling
How to return the name of the nextSibling node.

Text
In IE5 you can return the text from a node and all its child nodes.

xml
In IE5 you can return the xml from a node and all its child nodes.

appendChild
How to create an element node with a text node and then append it as a child node.

insertBefore
How to create a text node and then insert it before a specified node.

The Node Object

The node object represents a node in the node tree. A node can be an element node, a text node, or any other of the node types explained in the DOM nodeType chapter. All of these node types have properties and methods. The general properties and methods for all node types are listed below:

W3C Properties

Property	Description
attributes	Returns a NamedNodeMap containing all attributes for this node
childNodes	Returns a NodeList containing all the child nodes for this node
firstChild	Returns the first child node for this node
lastChild	Returns the last child node for this node
nextSibling	Returns the next sibling node. Two nodes are siblings if they have the same parent node
nodeName	Returns the nodeName, depending on the type
nodeType	Returns the nodeType as a number
nodeValue	Returns, or sets, the value of this node, depending on the type
ownerDocument	Returns the root node of the document
parentNode	Returns the parent node for this node
previousSibling	Returns the previous sibling node. Two nodes are siblings if they have the same parent node

W3C Methods

Method	Description
appendChild(newChild)	Appends the node newChild at the end of the child nodes for this node
cloneNode(boolean)	Returns an exact clone of this node. If the boolean value is set to true, the cloned node contains all the child nodes as well
hasChildNodes()	Returns true if this node has any child nodes
insertBefore(newNode,refNode)	Inserts a new node, newNode, before the existing node, refNode
removeChild(nodeName)	Removes the specified node, nodeName
replaceChild(newNode,oldNode)	Replaces the oldNode, with the newNode

IE5 Node Properties and Methods

The node object has some properties and methods that are defined in Internet Explorer 5 only:

IE5 Properties

Property	Description
basename	Returns the nodeName without the namespaces
dataType	Returns, or sets, the dataType for this node
definition
nodeTypeString	Returns the nodeType as a string
nodeTypedValue
specified	Returns whether the nodeValue is specified in the DTD/Schema or not
text	Returns, or sets, the text for this node and all its child nodes
xml	Returns, or sets, the xml for this node and all its child nodes

IE5 Methods

Method	Description
selectNodes(pattern)
selectSingleNode(pattern)
transformNode(stylesheet)	Processes the node and its childNodes with the specified XSL stylesheet, and returns the result

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