nodeName

abstract fun nodeName(): String

Returns a string that represents the node name in the UTF8 format.

The returned values for different types of nodes are:

ELEMENT_NODE The element tag name.

For DOM trees which represent HTML documents, the returned value is always capitalized. The tag names of elements in an XML DOM tree are returned in the same case in which they're written in the original XML file.

ATTRIBUTE_NODEThe attribute name
TEXT_NODE"#text"
C_DATA_SECTION_NODE"#cdata-section"
The entity name
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTIONS_NODEThe value of the target attribute
COMMENT_NODE"#comment"
DOCUMENT_NODE"#document"
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODEThe document type name, for example "html" for <!DOCTYPE HTML>
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE"#document-fragment"

Throws

when this node is closed