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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:45:00+00:00

I’ve a xml file in which I’m storing some HTML content in an element

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I’ve a xml file in which I’m storing some HTML content in an element tag called <body>. Now I’m trying to read all the HTML content of body tag using XML DOM in JavaScript.

I tried this code:

var xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc('QID_627.xml'); var bodytag = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('body'); document.write(bodytag);

but it is showing [object HTMLCollection] message on the browser screen.

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  1. Andrew Hare pointed out that getElementsByTagName() always returns an array, so you have to use bodytag[0] to get the element you want. This is correct, but not complete since even when you do that you’ll still get an equally useless ‘[object ElementName]’ message.

    If you’re set on using document.write() you can try to serialize out the content of the body tag with 

     document.write(bodytag[0].innerHTML);

    Better yet would be directly attaching the source DOM nodes into your destination DOM.

    You’d use something like

    document.getElementById('destinationNodeId').appendChild(bodytag[0]);

    There may be some issues with attaching DOM nodes from another document that may require you to copy the nodes, or jump through some other hoops to have it work.

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