Node class

Node class

The Node class is the primary datatype for the entire Document object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree.

The Node type exposes the following members:

Properties

Property Description
node_type Gets the node type.
parent_node Gets the parent node.
base_uri Gets the absolute base URI of this node or null if the implementation wasn’t able to obtain an absolute URI.
owner_document Gets the document object associated with this node.
child_nodes Gets the child nodes.
node_name Gets the node name, depending on its type.
node_value Gets or sets the value of this node, depending on its type.
text_content Gets or sets the the text content of this node and its descendants.
local_name Gets the local part of the qualified name of this node.
prefix Gets or sets the namespace prefix of this node.
namespace_uri Gets the namespace URI of this node.
has_child_nodes Gets whether this node has any children.
previous_sibling Gets the node immediately preceding this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
next_sibling Gets the node immediately following this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
first_child Gets the first child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
last_child Gets the last child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
COMMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
ELEMENT_NODE
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
TEXT_NODE

Methods

Method Description
append_child(node)
remove_child(node)
replace_child(node, child)

See Also