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XMLNode - Scoped, Global

Release version: Australia

Updated March 12, 2026

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The XMLNode API provides methods to query values from XML nodes. XMLNodes are extracted from XMLDocument2 objects, which contain XML strings.

There are no constructors for creating a stand alone instance of an XMLNode object. Instead, use the createElement() method of XMLDocument2, which adds a node to an existing document.

Scoped XMLNode - getAttribute(String attribute)

Gets the value of the attribute.

Table 1. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
attribute	String	Name of the attribute.

Table 2. Returns
Type	Description
String	The attribute's value.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//two');
gs.info(node.getAttribute('att'));

Output:

xxx

Scoped XMLNode - getAttributes()

Returns an object containing the node's attributes as properties with values.

Table 3. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 4. Returns
Type	Description
Object	Contains name-value pairs where the name is the attribute and the value is the attribute's value.

Scoped XMLNode - getChildNodeIterator()

Gets a XMLNodeIterator object that can be used to walk through the list of child nodes.

Table 5. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 6. Returns
Type	Description
XMLNodeIterator	The node iterator object.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//one');
var iter= node.getChildNodeIterator();
gs.info(iter.hasNext());

Scoped XMLNode - getFirstChild()

Gets the node's first child node.

Table 7. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 8. Returns
Type	Description
XMLNode	The node's first child node.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "<one>" +
                "<two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "<three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "<two>another</two>" +
                "</one>" +
                "<number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//one');
gs.info(node.getFirstChild());

Output:

<two att="xxx">abcd1234</two>

Scoped XMLNode - getLastChild()

Gets the node's last child node.

Table 9. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 10. Returns
Type	Description
XMLNode	The node's last child.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "<one>" +
                "<two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "<three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "<two>another</two>" +
                "</one>" +
                "<number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//one');
 
gs.info(node.getLastChild());

Output:

<two>another</two>

Scoped XMLNode - getNodeName()

Gets the node's name. A node's name is determined by the node type. A document-element node's name is #document. A text node's name is #text. An element node's name is the element's name.

Table 11. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 12. Returns
Type	Description
String	The node's name.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//two');
gs.info(node.getNodeName());

Output:

two

Scoped XMLNode - getNodeValue()

Gets the node's value. A node's value is determined by the node type. Element and document-element nodes return null.

Table 13. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 14. Returns
Type	Description
String	The node's value.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//two');
gs.info(node.getNodeValue());

Output:

null

Scoped XMLNode - getTextContent()

Gets the text content of the current node. The text content of a node consists of all the node's child text nodes

Table 15. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 16. Returns
Type	Description
String	The text content of the current node.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmldoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmldoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmldoc.getNode('//one/two');
gs.info(node.getTextContent());

Output:

abcd1234

Scoped XMLNode - hasAttribute(String attribute)

Determines if the node has the specified attribute.

Table 17. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
attribute	String	The name of the attribute to check.

Table 18. Returns
Type	Description
Boolean	True if the node has the attribute.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//two');
gs.info(node.hasAttribute('att'));

Output:

true

Scoped XMLNode - isCDATANode()

Indicates whether the CDATA node is preserved as a separate node.

Use the Scoped XMLDocument2 - setEnableCDATAReporting(Boolean enable) method to ensure that CDATA nodes are preserved and not handled as text.

Table 19. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 20. Returns
Type	Description
Boolean	Flag that indicates whether a queried node is CDATA or plain text. Valid values: true: The node queried is CDATA. false: The node queried is plain text.

The following example shows how to parse an XML string with CDATA reporting enabled using Scoped XMLDocument2 - setEnableCDATAReporting(Boolean enable). The code uses isCDATANode() to show that the first node queried in the XML string is a CDATA node.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
  "  <one>" +
  "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
  "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>"+
  "    <four><![CDATA[another]]>element</four>" +
  "  </one>" +
  "  <number>1234</number>" +
  "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.setEnableCDATAReporting(true); // Enables CDATA reporting
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var content = xmlDoc.getFirstNode('/test/one/four');
gs.info(content.getFirstChild().isCDATANode());

Output:

true

Scoped XMLNode - toString()

Returns the string value of the current node.

Table 21. Parameters
Name	Type	Description
None

Table 22. Returns
Type	Description
String	The string value of the current node.

var xmlString = "<test>" +
                "  <one>" +
                "    <two att=\"xxx\">abcd1234</two>" +
                "    <three boo=\"yah\" att=\"yyy\">1234abcd</three>" +
                "    <two>another</two>" +
                "  </one>" +
                "  <number>1234</number>" +
                "</test>";
var xmlDoc = new XMLDocument2();
xmlDoc.parseXML(xmlString);
var node = xmlDoc.getNode('//one');
gs.info(node.toString());

Output: Line breaks were added to the output.

<one>    
<two att="xxx">abcd1234</two>    
<three att="yyy" boo="yah">1234abcd</three>    
<two>another</two>  
</one>