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<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/example/xdom/loadxmldoc.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//check if the first node is an element node
function get_previousSibling(n)
{
y=n.previousSibling;
while (y.nodeType!=1)
  {
  y=y.previousSibling;
  }
return y;
}
</script>
</head>
​
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("/example/xdom/books.xml");
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x=get_previousSibling(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("price")[0]);
document.write(x.nodeName);
</script>
</body>
</html>
​