Implement children property on Node?

[retorquere]

With this script:

const { DOMParser } = require('@xmldom/xmldom')
let source = '<div id="note-body">note</div>';
const parser = new DOMParser()
doc = parser.parseFromString(source, 'text/html');
let root = doc.getElementById('note-body');
console.log(root.children)

I get undefined. Should nodes/the root element not have children properties as per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMParser/parseFromString ?

[karfau]

I'm sorry for the late reply.

There is no children property in the DOM API, also the page you linked doesn't mention children anywhere. Even though the DOM specification mentions the word a lot, it's rather a concept, not a property or getter: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-tree-child

What you might be looking for is childNodes.

I was wrong, according to https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-parentnode-children

The children getter steps are to return an HTMLCollection collection rooted at this matching only element children.

But xmldom is currently not implementing this (we don't even have an HTMLCollection yet).

The closest workaround is to filter childNodes by nodeType