I'm experimenting with this xml:

<theFeed>
 <games>
    <game id="103"  period="" clock="">
        <team id="657" type="home" logo="1/12"  score="46"/>
        <team id="740" type="visitor"  seed="11" score="59"/>
    </game>
  </games>
</theFeed>

and I'm trying to get the attribute "score" from the first child of the game node, but when I use this code(javascript):

var Hlogo = theXml.getElementsByTagName('game')[0].childNodes[0].getAttribute('score');

it crashes. I can get attributes from the parent just fine using getAttributes... is there something I'm doing wrong?

I'm experimenting with this xml:

<theFeed>
 <games>
    <game id="103"  period="" clock="">
        <team id="657" type="home" logo="1/12"  score="46"/>
        <team id="740" type="visitor"  seed="11" score="59"/>
    </game>
  </games>
</theFeed>

and I'm trying to get the attribute "score" from the first child of the game node, but when I use this code(javascript):

var Hlogo = theXml.getElementsByTagName('game')[0].childNodes[0].getAttribute('score');

it crashes. I can get attributes from the parent just fine using getAttributes... is there something I'm doing wrong?

• javascript
• xml

• Code please fix your formatting – Bot Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 18:10
• sorry about that, also left out the main node <theFeed></theFeed> – zero Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 18:14

2 Answers 2

var game = theXml.getElementsByTagName('game')[0];
var team = game.getElementsByTagName('team')[0];
var score = team.getAttribute('score');

console.log(game, team, score);

seems to work fine, providing theXml is valid (which i forced it to be document)

hope this helps -ck

I believe you need to add a reference to documentElement in your path:

var Hlogo = theXml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('game')[0].childNodes[0].getAttribute('score');