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output Property
Determines the output for MXXMLWriter. By default, the output property is a BSTR (string) value. You can also set this property to any implementation of the IStream interface, and the resulting document will be written into the provided IStream. Setting this property to the empty value (VT_EMPTY or " ") will return output to the internal string and reset it.
Usage Syntax
oMXXMLWriter.output = varDestination varDestination = oMXXMLWriter.output
Remarks
Read/write. Variant destination.
Example
For elements such as <script> and <style>, MXHTMLWriter passes through special characters. In the following example, MXHTMLWriter passes through the "<" character as a literal within the <script> tags.
Dim wrt As New MXHTMLWriter50
Dim cnth As IVBSAXContentHandler
Dim atrs As New SAXAttributes50
Set cnth = wrt
cnth.startDocument
cnth.startElement "", "", "html", atrs
cnth.startElement "", "", "script", atrs
cnth.characters "var a = 0;"
cnth.characters "var b = 1;"
cnth.characters "if (a < b) alert('hello')"
cnth.endElement "", "", "script"
cnth.startElement "", "", "body", atrs
wrt.disableOutputEscaping = True
cnth.characters "Sample HTML Page"
wrt.disableOutputEscaping = False
cnth.endElement "", "", "body"
cnth.endElement "", "", "html"
MsgBox wrt.output
Example Output
<html><script>var a = 0;var b = 1;if (a < b)
alert('hello')</script><body>Sample HTML Page</body></html>
Syntax
[propput] HRESULT output ( [in] VARIANT varDestination);
[propget] HRESULT output ( [out, retval] VARIANT * varDestination);
Parameters
- varDestination
- The variant destination.
Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if no errors are reported.
Remarks
The default is VT_EMPTY to output to string.
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See Also
IMXWriter Interface | MXXMLWriter CoClass
Applies to: MXHTMLWriter CoClass