Node class

The Node class is the primary datatype for the entire Document object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree.

The Node type exposes the following members:

Property	Description
node_type	Gets the node type.
parent_node	Gets the parent node.
base_uri	Gets the absolute base URI of this node or null if the implementation wasn’t able to obtain an absolute URI.
owner_document	Gets the document object associated with this node.
child_nodes	Gets the child nodes.
node_name	Gets the node name, depending on its type.
node_value	Gets or sets the value of this node, depending on its type.
text_content	Gets or sets the the text content of this node and its descendants.
local_name	Gets the local part of the qualified name of this node.
prefix	Gets or sets the namespace prefix of this node.
namespace_uri	Gets the namespace URI of this node.
has_child_nodes	Gets whether this node has any children.
previous_sibling	Gets the node immediately preceding this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
next_sibling	Gets the node immediately following this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
first_child	Gets the first child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
last_child	Gets the last child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns null.
COMMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_NODE
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
ELEMENT_NODE
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
TEXT_NODE