doctype Property
Contains the document type node that specifies the document type definition (DTD) for this document.
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType
object, and then displays the name
property of the object.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var MyDocType; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; alert("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype; if (MyDocType != null) { alert(MyDocType.name); } }
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType
object, and then displays the name
property of the object.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim MyDocType As IXMLDOMDocumentType 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 MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype If Not MyDocType Is Nothing Then MsgBox MyDocType.Name End If End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_doctype( IXMLDOMDocumentType **documentType);
Parameters
- documentType [out, retval]
- For XML, the address of the node of type
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE
that specifies the DTD. Returns Null for for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- S_FALSE
- The value returned when there is no document type node.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if the
documentType
parameter is Null.
Remarks
The property is read-only. For XML, it points to the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE
that specifies the DTD. It returns Null for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.
An XML document can contain a document type declaration before the first element in the document. It starts with the tag <!DOCTYPE>
and can specify an external DTD.
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See Also
Applies to: DOMDocument |IXMLDOMDocumentType