ownerDocument Property
Returns the root of the document that contains the node.
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMDocument = oXMLDOMNode.ownerDocument;
Example
The following script example uses the ownerDocument
property to return the parent DOMDocument
object, and then displays that object's root element tag name.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject5.0("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var currNode; var owner; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; alert("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0).childNodes.item(1); owner = currNode.ownerDocument; alert(owner.documentElement.tagName); }
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMDocument = oXMLDOMNode.ownerDocument
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example uses the ownerDocument
property to return the parent DOMDocument
object, and then displays that object's root element tag name.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim currNode As IXMLDOMNode Dim owner As DOMDocument50 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 currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.Item(0).childNodes.Item(1) Set owner = currNode.ownerDocument MsgBox owner.documentElement.tagName End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_ownerDocument( IXMLDOMDocument **DOMDocument);
Parameters
- DOMDocument [out, retval]
- Address of the parent document object that represents the root of the document.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- Value returned if successful.
- E_INVALIDARG
- Value returned if the
DOMDocument
parameter is Null.
Remarks
The property is read-only. It returns the parent document that represents the root of the document to which this node belongs.
All nodes are created in the context of a document, and the ownerDocument
property is maintained until the node is added to another document. For a node removed from a document, this property indicates the document in which the node was last included.
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See Also
Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText