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hi,
Could anyone tell me how can i read XML DOM object and find out the element it contains .
document.getElementsByTagName is there but i have to give the tag name .
I there any other method we can fin out the elemts and their values without knowing the tag names.
 
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getChildNodes() gives you a list of all child nodes of the current node. If you're starting out from the root element, that's all you need to traverse the whole document.
 
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document.getElementsByTagName ("*") return all tags
 
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