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XML DOM ownerElement Property

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Definition and Usage

The ownerElement property returns the element node the attribute is attached to.

Syntax

attrObject.ownerElement

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and returns the element node the first category attribute is attached to:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');

document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerElement);
document.write("<br />");
document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerElement.nodeName);
document.write("<br />");
document.write(x.item(0).attributes[0].ownerElement.nodeType);

The output of the code above will be:

[object Element]
book
1

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