Traversing a Document

function countTags(n) {                         // n is a Node 
    var numtags = 0;                            // Initialize the tag counter
    if (n.nodeType == 1 /*Node.ELEMENT_NODE*/)  // Check if n is an Element
        numtags++;                              // Increment the counter if so
    var children = n.childNodes;                // Now get all children of n
    for(var i=0; i < children.length; i++) {    // Loop through the children
        numtags += countTags(children[i]);      // Recurse on each one
    }
    return numtags;                             // Return the total
}

alert('This document has ' + countTags(document) + ' tags.'