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<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.selectNodes = function (sXPath) {
var oEvaluator = new XPathEvaluator();
var oResult = oEvaluator.evaluate(sXPath, oXmlDom.documentElement, null,
XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
var aNodes = new Array;
if (oResult != null) {
var oElement = oResult.iterateNext();
while(oElement) {
aNodes.push(oElement);
oElement = oResult.iterateNext();
}
}
return aNodes;
};
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This example gets all nodes matching the expression <code>employee/name</code> using the <code>selectNodes()</code> method.</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var oXmlDom = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
oXmlDom.async = false;
oXmlDom.load("employees.xml");
var aNodes = oXmlDom.documentElement.selectNodes("employee/name");
var sMessage = "There are " + aNodes.length + " matching nodes.\n";
var iCount = 0;
for (var i=0; i < aNodes.length; i++) {
sMessage += aNodes[i].xml + "\n";
}
alert(sMessage);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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20/2/2008
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