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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Mozilla XPath Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="detect.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="xmldom.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (isMoz) {
Element.prototype.selectSingleNode = function (sXPath) {
var oEvaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
var oResult = oEvaluator.evaluate(sXPath, oXmlDom.documentElement, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null);
if (oResult != null) {
return oResult.singleNodeValue;
} else {
return null;
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This example gets the first node matching the expression <code>employee/name</code>.</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var oXmlDom = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
oXmlDom.async = false;
oXmlDom.load("employees.xml");
alert(oXmlDom.documentElement.selectSingleNode("employee/name").xml);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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