XML DOM baseURI Property
❮ Element Object
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and displays the location of the XML document:
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
myFunction(this);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
var x =
xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Document
location: " + x.baseURI;
}
The output of the code above will be:
Document location: https://w3.p2hp.com/xml/books.xml
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Definition and Usage
The baseURI property returns the location (URI) of the xml document.
Syntax
elementNode.baseURI
❮ Element Object
