length Property (IXMLDOMCharacterData)

Script Syntax

lValue = oXMLDOMCharacterData.length;

Example

The following example creates an IXMLDOMComment object and then assigns the length property to a variable.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
var comment;
var lValue;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
comment = xmlDoc.createComment("Hello World!");
lValue = comment.length;
alert(lValue);

Visual Basic Syntax

lValue = oXMLDOMCharacterData.length

Example

The following example creates an IXMLDOMComment object and then assigns the length property to a variable.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument40
Dim comment As IXMLDOMComment
Dim lValue As Long
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
Set comment = xmlDoc.createComment("Hello World!")
lValue = comment.length
MsgBox lValue

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_length(
    long *dataLength);

Parameters

dataLength [out, retval]

The length, in Unicode characters, of the string present in the data property.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

The value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG

The value returned if dataLength is Null.