Loads an XML document using the supplied string.
JScript Syntax
boolValue = oXMLDOMDocument.loadXML(bstrXML);
Parameters
- bstrXML
-
A string containing the XML string to load into this XML document object. This string can contain an entire XML document or a well-formed fragment.
Return Value
Boolean. Returns True if the XML load succeeded. Returns False and sets the documentElement property of the DOMDocument to Null if the XML load failed.
Example
The following script example creates a DOMDocument object, and then uses its loadXML method to load the specified XML before displaying it.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.loadXML("<customer><first_name>Joe</first_name><last_name>Smith</last_name></customer>");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
WScript.Echo(xmlDoc.xml);
}
Output
<customer><first_name>Joe</first_name><last_name>Smith</last_name></customer>
Visual Basic Syntax
boolValue = oXMLDOMDocument.loadXML(bstrXML)
Parameters
- bstrXML
-
A string containing the XML string to load into this XML document object. This string can contain an entire XML document or a well-formed fragment.
Return Value
Boolean. Returns True if the XML load succeeded. Returns False and sets the documentElement property of the DOMDocument to Null if the XML load failed.
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates a DOMDocument object, and then uses its loadXML method to load the specified XML before displaying it.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument30
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.loadXML ("<customer>" & _
"<first_name>Joe</first_name>" & _
"<last_name>Smith</last_name></customer>")
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
Dim myErr
Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
MsgBox xmlDoc.xml
End If
Output
<customer><first_name>Joe</first_name><last_name>Smith</last_name></customer>
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT loadXML(
BSTR bstrXML,
VARIANT_BOOL * isSuccessful);
Parameters
- bstrXML[in]
-
An XML string to load into this XML document object. This string can contain an entire XML document or a well-formed fragment.
- isSuccessful[out, retval]
-
True if the XML load succeeded. If the XML load failed, this method returns False and sets the documentElement property of the DOMDocument object to Null.
Return Values
- S_OK
-
The value returned if successful.
- S_FALSE
-
The value returned if the load fails.
- E_INVALIDARG
-
The value returned if the isSuccessful parameter is Null.
Remarks
Calling load or loadXML on an existing document immediately discards the content of the document. The loadXML() method will work only with UTF-16 or UCS-2 encodings.
You can use this method to check if the loaded XML document is well-formed. You cannot use it to validate the XML document against a schema.
This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).
When a document is loaded using this method, URLs will be resolved relative to the directory from which the program executed.
Versioning
Implemented in: MSXML 3.0 and later
See Also