xml Property

Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.

[Script]

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.4.0");
var currNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
alert(currNode.xml);

[Visual Basic]

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.DOMDocument40
Dim currNode As IXMLDOMNode
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
Set currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.Item(0)
MsgBox currNode.xml

[C/C++]

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 xmlString 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 Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).

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xml Property

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