XML Element | XML Object

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Defines an xml data island on an HTML page.

HTML Syntax

<XML	
   ID = value
   NS = sNamespace
   PREFIX = sPrefix
   SRC = sUrl
   event  = script
></XML>

Remarks

The readyState property of the XML element, available as a string value, corresponds to the readystate property of the xmldomdocument object, which is available as a long value. The string values correspond to the long values of the XML document object's property as follows:

0	uninitialized
1	loading
2	loaded
3	interactive
4	complete

Consider the following XML data island:

<XML ID=xmldoc SRC="123.xml"></XML>

Use the following two methods to check the value of the readyState property to determine whether the XML data island is completely downloaded.

• This method uses the readyState property of the XML element:

  if (xmldoc.readyState == "complete")
      window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");

• This method uses the readystate property of the XMLDOMDocument object:

  if (xmldoc.XMLDocument.readyState == 4)
      window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");

The XML element requires a closing tag.

This element is available in HTML and script as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.

Members

XML Members

Styles

A Styles

Example

This example uses the XML element to define a simple XML data island that can be embedded directly into an HTML page.

<XML ID="oMetaData">
  <METADATA>
     <AUTHOR>John Smith</AUTHOR>
     <GENERATOR>Visual Notepad</GENERATOR>
     <PAGETYPE>Reference</PAGETYPE>
     <ABSTRACT>Specifies a data island</ABSTRACT>
  </METADATA>
</XML>

This script example retrieves the text contained within the ABSTRACT field of the data island.

   var oNode = oMetaData.XMLDocument.selectSingleNode("METADATA/ABSTRACT");
   alert(oNode.text);

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