JavaScript Programmer’s Reference ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE appendChild(), cloneNode(), hasChildNodes(), insertBefore(), removeChild(), replaceChild() Class constants: Object methods: Collections: Here is a list of the available node types: attributes[], childNodes[] Constant Type Description undefined null A member of the attributes collection ELEMENT_NODE 1 HTML element object node ATTRIBUTE_NODE 2 HTML tag attribute object TEXT_NODE 3 Text object node CDATA_SECTION_NODE 4 CDATA section ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE 5 Entity reference ENTITY_NODE 6 Entity node PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE 7 Processing instruction node COMMENT_NODE 8 Comment node DOCUMENT_NODE 9 Document object DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE 10 Doctype object DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE 11 Document fragment node NOTATION_NODE 12 Notation node The DOM level 2 specification adds the following methods: . supports() . normalize() It also adds the following properties: . namespaceURI . prefix . localName At DOM level 3, the interface to the Node object is expected to evolve further to allow nodes to be compared and to be able to extract a serialized version of a DOM tree branch into a string primitive. This functionality is still under review as this is being written. The following additional properties are expected to be supported: . baseURI . textContent . key 1526

N news: URL (Request method) Warnings: . There are significant security and virus related risks with JavaScript enabled news. The possibilities are so catastrophic that the best reccomendation is to deactivate JavaScript and Java in any news- reading client application. . Just because something is possible does not mean it is advisable or good to do. . On the other hand, within the confines of a closely controlled intranet or workgroup, this could find many useful applications. Just so long as you know where the news posts came from and you can absolutely trust that they have not been compromised. . Personally, I’d recommend that you turn it off. It might be useful for including the odd diagram but mostly you need to get the informational content and it doesn’t really need to be very pretty. See also: E-mail containing JavaScript Cross-references: Wrox Instant JavaScript page 60 news: URL (Request method) A request from a web browser to a news server to send a document. Use the browser to download and browse some news content. Warnings: . This is only allowed under script control if the script has the UniversalSendMail privilege. See also: javascript: URL, UniversalSendMail, URL Node object (Object/DOM) A node is the primary component from which documents are built (in the context of a DOM hierarchy). Availability: DOM level 1 JavaScript 1.5 JScript 5.0 Internet Explorer 5.0 Netscape 6.0 JavaScript syntax: -myNode = myMutationEvent.relatedNode Object properties: firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling, nodeName, nodeType, nodeValue, ownerDocument, parentNode, previousSibling 1525

JavaScript Programmer’s Reference A line break is also introduced when you use block structured elements in the HTML. Here is a list of common HTML tags that do this (there are others too): .

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