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