getElementsByTagName

Syntax:: element.getElementsByTagName(name)

This method returns a NodeList of all descendant elements of the specified name.

If you supply the three characters "*" as the argument to this method, it returns all descendant elements of whatever name.

Examples

Code:

XML:



<Albums>


    <Album

ref="CD142"

category="Folk">


       <title>Boil The Breakfast

Early</title>


       <artist>The Chieftains</artist>


    </Album>


    <Album

ref="CD720"

category="Pop">


       <title>Come On Over</title>


       <artist>Shania Twain</artist>


    </Album>


    <Album

ref="CD024"

category="Country">


       <title>Red Dirt Girl</title>


       <artist>Emmylou Harris</artist>


    </Album>


 </Albums>



VBScript:



Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")


 objXMLDoc.async = False


 objXMLDoc.load("albums.xml")



 Set Root = objXMLDoc.documentElement


 Set NodeList = Root.getElementsByTagName("artist")


 For Each Elem In NodeList


    response.write(Elem.firstChild.nodeValue 

"<br>")


 Next

Output:

The Chieftains

Shania Twain

Emmylou Harris

Explanation:

In this example using the 'albums.xml' file, the code creates a NodeList of all the 'artist' elements, and then iterates through it displaying the nodeValue of the firstChild of each (the text).

Primary links

XML DOM » Element » getElementsByTagName

Examples

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Language(s): VBScript XML