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IXMLDOMCharacterData
Provides text manipulation methods that are used by several objects.
[Script]
Example
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var nodeDescription;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
nodeDescription = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//description");
alert(nodeDescription.text);
}
[Visual Basic]
Example
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim nodeDescription As IXMLDOMElement
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.setProperty "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"
xmlDoc.Load "books.xml"
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
Dim myErr
Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
Set nodeDescription = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//description")
MsgBox nodeDescription.Text
End If
Remarks
IXMLDOMCharacterData does not directly correspond to any node type. Methods are reused by IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMComment, and IXMLDOMText. These methods handle large amounts of text, including sizes larger than can be manipulated natively using string constructs.
Requirements
Implementation: msxml5.dll, msxml2.lib
[C/C++]
Header and IDL files: msxml2.h, msxml2.idl
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Versioning
MSXML 2.0 and later
See Also
IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData Members | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMText