getAttributeNode Method
Gets the attribute node.
[Script]
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMAttribute = oXMLDOMElement.getAttributeNode(name);
Parameters
- name
- The string specifying the name of the attribute to be retrieved.
Return Value
An object. Returns IXMLDOMAttribute
with the supplied name, or Null if the named attribute cannot be found on this element.
Example
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var nodeBook, nodeId, sIdValue; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; alert("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//book"); nodeId = nodeBook.getAttributeNode("id"); sIdValue = nodeId.value; alert(sIdValue); }
[Visual Basic]
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMAttribute = oXMLDOMElement.getAttributeNode(name)
Parameters
- name
- The string specifying the name of the attribute to be retrieved.
Return Value
An object. Returns IXMLDOMAttribute
with the supplied name, or Null if the named attribute cannot be found on this element.
Example
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim nodeBook As IXMLDOMElement Dim nodeId As IXMLDOMAttribute Dim sIdValue As String xmlDoc.async = False xmlDoc.Load "books.xml" If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then Dim myErr Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason) Else Set nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//book") Set nodeId = nodeBook.getAttributeNode("id") sIdValue = nodeId.Value MsgBox sIdValue End If
[C/C++]
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT getAttributeNode( BSTR name, IXMLDOMAttribute **attributeNode);
Parameters
- name [in]
- The name of the attribute to be retrieved.
- attributeNode [out, retval]
- An
IXMLDOMAttribute
object that is returned with the supplied name, or Null if the named attribute cannot be found on this element.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- S_FALSE
- The value returned when no attribute with the given name is found.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if name is Null.
C/C++ Example
BOOL DOMElementAttributeNode() { BOOL bResult = FALSE; BSTR bstrAttributeName = ::SysAllocString(_T("dateCreated")); IXMLDOMAttribute* pIXMLDOMAttribute = NULL; IXMLDOMElement *pIXMLDOMElement = NULL; IXMLDOMDocument *pIXMLDOMDocument = NULL; HRESULT hr; try { // Create an instance of DOMDocument and initialize // pIXMLDOMDocument. // Load/create an XML fragment. hr = pIXMLDOMDocument->get_documentElement(&pIXMLDOMElement); SUCCEEDED(m_hr) ? 0 : throw hr; If(pIXMLDOMElement) { hr = pIXMLDOMElement->getAttributeNode(bstrAttributeName, &pIXMLDOMAttribute); if(SUCCEEDED(hr) && pIXMLDOMAttribute) { // Read node value and display . . . bResult = TRUE; pIXMLDOMAttribute->Release(); pIXMLDOMAttribute = NULL; } ::SysFreeString(bstrAttributeName); bstrAttributeName = NULL; pIXMLDOMElement->Release(); pIXMLDOMElement = NULL; } } catch(...) { if(bstrAttributeName) ::SysFreeString(bstrAttributeName); if(pIXMLDOMAttribute) pIXMLDOMAttribute->Release(); if(pIXMLDOMElement) pIXMLDOMElement->Release(); DisplayErrorToUser(); } return bResult; }
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See Also
Applies to: IXMLDOMElement