xml Property
Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.
Script Syntax
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode
of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's XML value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var currNode; 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); alert(currNode.xml); }
Visual Basic Syntax
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml
Example
The following Microsoft Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMNode
of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's XML value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim currNode 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) MsgBox currNode.xml End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_xml( BSTR *xmlString);
Parameters
- xmlString [out, retval]
- An XML representation of this node and all its descendants.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if the
xmlString
property is Null.
Remarks
The property is read-only.
The xml
property always returns a Unicode string. That is, the xml
property for DOMDocument
converts the document from its original encoding to Unicode. As a result, the original encoding attribute is removed. For example, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
appears in the xml
property as follows.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
If the original encoding was not removed by the xml
property, the following line returns an error indicating the parser cannot switch from Unicode to UTF-8 encoding.
xmlDoc.loadxml(xmlDoc.xml);
If you use the save
method, the original encoding is preserved. For example, if you load a document in Microsoft® Windows® 1252 encoding, it will be saved in that format.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType
property.
NODE_ATTRIBUTE
NODE_CDATA_SECTION NODE_COMMENT NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_ELEMENT NODE_ENTITY NODE_NOTATION NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION NODE_TEXT |
Returns the string representation of the node and all its descendants. |
NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT | Returns the string representation of all descendant nodes of the document fragment. |
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Returns the string representation of the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, including the internal subset if specified. |
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns the string representation of the entity reference. Although the entity reference has children, they are not returned. |
This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).
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See Also
nodeType Property | save method | Persistence and the DOM
Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText