How to select childnodes by name?

[dcnguyen]

Is there a built-in JS function to select a childnode by name? For example:

<book>
<authors>
<author>
<author>
</authors>
<price>
</price>
</book>

How would I go about selecting the price node?

 

[friendlyposter]

The names you want are tagNames.

myTaggedElements = myParentElement.getElementsByTagName("book");

 

[dcnguyen]

Yeah that's what I thought, but I get a "Object doesn't support this property or method

 

[tsuji]

>How would I go about selecting the price node?
From where? in where? and what have you done the moment? Otherwise, open the source file, look at it and select. That certainly is not what you meant.

 

[dcnguyen]

Oops, nevermind...The function works, I was calling it as a member function from something that wasn't a node...Thanks for the help.