<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/example/xdom/loadxmldoc.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("/example/xdom/books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0]
y=x.getAttributeNode("category");
y.nodeValue="child";
document.write(y.nodeValue);
</body>
</html>