XML DOM parentNode property
Node objects Definition and Usage
parentNode property returns the parent of the node.
grammar
nodeObject.parentNode
Examples
The following code fragment uses loadXMLDoc () to " the Books.xml " into xmlDoc, and returns the first parent node <title> element:
Examples
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write("Parent node: " + x.parentNode.nodeName);
The code above will output:
Parent node: book
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Node objects