XML Responses and AJAX - A Quick look at XMLDOM

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In this section we look at the parsing of the XML document in some detail. The responseXML is an XML document, and its properties can also be accessed.

responseXML's basic properties

document.getElementById("x4").innerHTML=xhr.responseXML.
firstChild.nodeName
document.getElementById("x5").innerHTML=xhr.responseXML.
lastChild.nodeName

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xml
wclass

Relevant portion of the XML Document

responseXML.documentElement's basic properties

document.getElementById("x2").innerHTML= xhr.responseXML.documentElement.firstChild.nodeName
document.getElementById("x3").innerHTML= xhr.responseXML.documentElement.lastChild.nodeName

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The responseXML is considered as a document with root wclass. The boundary is the document. The first child is comment and the lastChild is student.

#comment
student

Relevant portion of the XML Document

documentElement's children

In this case, it is the responseXML document's children. Let's take the example of item 3. The following snippet captures this child's properties.

document.getElementById("x6").innerHTML= xhr.responseXML.documentElement.childNodes.item(3).text
document.getElementById("x7").innerHTML= xhr.responseXML.documentElement.childNodes.item(3).
     attributes[0].name
document.getElementById("x8").innerHTML=
     attributes[0].value

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Charles Boyer HTML, Photoshop
id
3

Relevant portion of the XML Document

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