access private variable to get childNodes for dataTable

Webix JS
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Hi ,
I want to access the private variable for the dataTable’s body. Is there a public accessor that will allow me to get the childNodes or the body element of the datatable. I want to use the minified version of webix file and am writing some extension class.
The line that I am looking at is as below.
parent = this._body.childNodes[split_column].firstChild;

2

There is no public methods|properties for accessing html elements of components.
Can you share the exact scenario - why you need to access the html elements ? Api of component allows to do nearly any operation without accessing html elements directly.

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I am initialize an editor dynamically and there are loads of internal functions that are being called in the process, I need to invoke an editor of certain type and set a value so that it triggers the edit stop handler that I have associated with the datatable.