The EntityReference object represents an entity reference node. If entity references
are expanded by the XML processor while building the structure model, no entity reference
objects will appear in the document tree.
XML does not require a non-validating processor to expand external entities. If this is
the case, the replacement value of the entity may not be available. Where the replacement
value is available, it appears in the child list of the EntityReference object. This
list of child nodes is the same as that of the Entity object.
The resolution of the children of an EntityReference (the
replacement value of the referenced entity) can be loosely evaluated. Actions
such as calling the childNodes method
are assumed to trigger the evaluation. Note that character entities are expanded
by the XML processor and do not appear as entity references, but instead appear
within the character text in Unicode.
An EntityReference has no methods or properties of its own, but inherits those of
the Node object. For details of the values returned by the
nodeName,
nodeType and nodeValue
properties for an EntityReference, see the Node object.
 denotes a Microsoft extension to the W3C DOM.
PROPERTIES
attributes Property
This is a read-only property that returns an
NamedNodeMap for nodes that can have
attributes.
Syntax: Node.attributes
baseName Property
This is a read-only property that returns the base name for a node.
Syntax: Node.baseName
childNodes Property
This is a read-only property containing a node list of all children for those elements that
can have them.
Syntax: Node.childNodes
dataType Property
This is a read-only property that specifies the data type for the node.
Syntax: Node.dataType
definition Property
This property returns the definition of the node in the DTD or schema.
Syntax: Node.definition
firstChild Property
This is a read-only property that returns the first child node of a node. If there is none,
it returns null.
Syntax: Node.firstChild
lastChild Property
This is a read-only property that returns the last child node of a node. If there is none,
it returns null.
Syntax: Node.lastChild
namespaceURI Property
This property is read-only and returns the URI (Universal Resource Indentifier) of the
namespace.
Syntax: Node.namespaceURI
nextSibling Property
This property returns the next node in the parent's child list, or null if there
is none or the node is of a type that cannot be a child node
(Attr,
Document,
DocumentFragment).
Syntax: Node.nextSibling
nodeName Property
This property is read-only and contains the name of the node, depending on type.
Syntax: Node.nodeName
nodeType Property
This is a read-only property specifying the type of the node.
Syntax: Node.nodeType
nodeTypedValue Property
This property contains the value of this node expressed in its defined data type.
Syntax: Node.nodeTypedValue
nodeTypeString Property
This property is read-only and returns the node type in string form.
Syntax: Node.nodeTypeString
nodeValue Property
This property contains the value of the node, depending on type.
Syntax: Node.nodeValue
ownerDocument Property
This property returns the Document object to which the
node belongs. If the node itself is a document, then it returns null.
Syntax: Node.ownerDocument
parentNode Property
This is a read-only property that returns the parent node of all nodes except
Document,
DocumentFragment and
Attr, which cannot have parent nodes.
Syntax: Node.parentNode
parsed Property
This property returns a boolean value of true if this node and all of its
descendants have been parsed and instantiated. Otherwise it returns false.
Syntax: Node.parsed
prefix Property
This property is read-only and returns the namespace prefix, or an empty string if none
is specified. For example, it would return 'xxx' for the element <xxx:yyy>.
Syntax: Node.prefix
previousSibling Property
This property returns the previous node in the parent's child list, or null if
there is none or the node is of a type that cannot be a child node
(Attr,
Document,
DocumentFragment).
Syntax: Node.previousSibling
specified Property
This property returns a boolean value indicating whether this node (usually an attribute)
is explicitly specified or derived from a default value in the DTD or schema.
Syntax: Node.specified
text Property
This property contains the text content of this node and its subtrees.
Syntax: Node.text
xml Property
This property contains the XML representation of this node and its descendants.
Syntax: Node.xml
METHODS
appendChild Method
This method appends a new child node to the list of children for this node.
Syntax: Node.appendChild(tagName)
cloneNode Method
This method creates a clone node which is an exact replica of this node.
Syntax: Node.cloneNode(deep)
hasChildNodes Method
This method is a convenient way to determine whether a node has child nodes, returning
true if it has, and false if not.
Syntax: Node.hasChildNodes( )
insertBefore Method
This method is used to insert a new child node before an existing one. If no child node
exists, the new child node becomes the first.
Syntax: Node.insertBefore(newChild, refChild)
removeChild Method
This method removes the specified node from the list of children and returns it.
Syntax: Node.removeChild(oldChild)
replaceChild Method
This method is used to replace one of a node's children with another. It returns the old
child.
Syntax: Node.replaceChild(newChild, oldChild)
selectNodes Method
This method creates a NodeList of all the matching
descendant nodes returned by the specified pattern-matching operation.
Syntax: Node.selectNodes(patternString)
selectSingleNode Method
This method returns a Node object for the first descendant
node to match the specified pattern.
Syntax: Node.selectSingleNode(patternString)
transformNode Method
This method processes this node and its descendants using the specified XSL stylesheet,
and returns the resulting transformation.
Syntax: Node.transformNode(stylesheet)
transformNodeToObject Method
This method processes this node and its descendants using the specified XSL stylesheet,
and returns the resulting transformation in the specified object.
Syntax: Node.transformNodeToObject(stylesheet, outputObject)
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