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setAttribute Method
Sets the value of the named attribute.
Script Syntax
oXMLDOMElement.setAttribute(name, value);
Parameters
- name
- The string specifying the name of the attribute. If the attribute with that name already exists, its value is changed. If the attribute with that name does not exist, it is created.
- value
- The variant that supplies the value for the named attribute.
Example
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var nodeBook;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//book");
nodeBook.setAttribute("PublishDate", String(Date()))
alert(nodeBook.getAttribute("PublishDate"));
}
Visual Basic Syntax
oXMLDOMElement.setAttribute(name, value)
Parameters
- name
- The string specifying the name of the attribute. If the attribute with that name already exists, its value is changed. If the attribute with that name does not exist, it is created.
- value
- The variant that supplies the value for the named attribute.
Example
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim nodeBook As IXMLDOMElement
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 nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//book")
nodeBook.setAttribute "PublishDate", Now
MsgBox nodeBook.getAttribute("PublishDate")
End If
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT setAttribute(
BSTR name,
VARIANT value);
Parameters
- name [in]
- The name of the attribute. If an attribute with that name already exists, its value is changed. If an attribute with that name does not exist, it is created.
- value [in]
- The value for the named attribute.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- E_FAIL
- The value returned if an error occurs.
C/C++ Example
See the example in the getAttribute method.
Remarks
If an attribute with the supplied name already exists, this method changes its value to the supplied value parameter. The supplied string is not parsed, so any markup, such as syntax intended to be recognized as an entity reference, is treated as literal text and must be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out.
To assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create IXMLDOMAttribute plus any IXMLDOMText and IXMLDOMEntityReference objects, build the appropriate subtree, and call the setAttributeNode method.
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See Also
IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMText | IXMLDOMEntityReference | setAttributeNode method
Applies to: IXMLDOMElement