doctype Property

Script Syntax

var objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype;

Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType object, and then displays the name property of the object.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
var MyDocType;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype;
if (MyDocType != null) {
   alert(MyDocType.name);
}

Visual Basic Syntax

Set objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype

Example

The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType object, and then displays the name property of the object.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument40
Dim MyDocType As IXMLDOMDocumentType
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
Set MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype
If Not MyDocType Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox MyDocType.Name
End If

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_doctype(
    IXMLDOMDocumentType **documentType);

Parameters

documentType [out, retval]

For XML, the address of the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE that specifies the DTD. Returns Null for for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

The value returned if successful.

S_FALSE

The value returned when there is no document type node.

E_INVALIDARG

The value returned if documentType is Null.