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javascript selectNodes on parsed xml

How can I use the selectNode() function on a parsed XML message in javascript?

<script>
var xmlStr = "<tagName>some text here</tagName>";
var xmlDoc = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(xmlStr, "text/xml");
var nodes = xmlDoc.selectNodes('tagName');
</script>

I get error for this code: Uncaught TypeError: xmlDoc.selectNodes is not a function

Solution

  • Actually XmlDocument.SelectNodes method exists, but in the .NET Framework.

    In JavaScript, you can use the getElementsByTagName() method

    var nodes = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("tagName")[0];