XML DOM removeNamedItem () method

Definition and Usage

removeNamedItem () method removes a specified node.

If the removed attribute has a default value, a new property will immediately produce, along with the namespace URI, local name, prefix.

The method returns the removed node.

removeNamedItem(nodename)

参数	描述
nodename	The name of the node to remove

The following code fragment uses loadXMLDoc () to " the Books.xml " into xmlDoc loop through <book> element and remove the category properties:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');

for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
x.item(i).attributes.removeNamedItem("category");
}