specified Property
Indicates whether the node (usually an attribute) is explicitly specified or derived from a default value in the document type definition (DTD) or schema.
Script Syntax
boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.specified;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode
from the specified item in an IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap
. It then displays whether or not the attribute was specified in the element, rather than in a DTD or schema.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var currNode; var objNamedNodeMap; var myNode; 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); objNamedNodeMap = currNode.attributes; myNode = objNamedNodeMap.item(0); alert(myNode.specified); }
Visual Basic Syntax
boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.specified
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMNode
from the specified item in an IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap
. It then displays whether or not the attribute was specified in the element, rather than in a DTD or schema.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim currNode As IXMLDOMNode Dim objNamedNodeMap As IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap Dim myNode As IXMLDOMNode 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) Set objNamedNodeMap = currNode.Attributes Set myNode = objNamedNodeMap.Item(0) MsgBox myNode.specified End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_specified( VARIANT_BOOL *isSpecified);
Parameters
- isSpecified [out, retval]
- True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element; False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if the
isSpecified
parameter is Null.
Remarks
Boolean. The property is read-only. Returns True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element. Returns False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType
property.
NODE_ATTRIBUTE | Returns True if the attribute was specified directly on the element. Returns False for default attributes. |
NODE_CDATA_SECTION
NODE_COMMENT NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE NODE_ELEMENT NODE_ENTITY NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE NODE_NOTATION NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION NODE_TEXT |
Returns True. |
This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).
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See Also
Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText