Script Syntax

lValue = oXMLDOMCharacterData.length;

Example

The following example creates an IXMLDOMComment object and then assigns the length property to a variable.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var comment;
var lValue;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   comment = xmlDoc.createComment("Hello World!");
   lValue = comment.length;
   alert(lValue);
}

Visual Basic Syntax

lValue = oXMLDOMCharacterData.length

Example

The following example creates an IXMLDOMComment object and then assigns the length property to a variable.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim comment As IXMLDOMComment
Dim lValue As Long
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 comment = xmlDoc.createComment("Hello World!")
   lValue = comment.length
   MsgBox lValue
End If

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_length(
    long *dataLength);

Parameters

dataLength [out, retval]

The length, in Unicode characters, of the string present in the data property.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

The value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG

The value returned if the dataLength parameter is Null.