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doctype Property

Contains the document type node that specifies the document type definition (DTD) for this document.

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var objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype;

Example

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

JScript
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var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
var MyDocType;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype;
   if (MyDocType != null) {
      WScript.Echo(MyDocType.name);
   }
}
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Set objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype
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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 the documentType parameter is Null.

The property is read-only. For XML, it points to the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE that specifies the DTD. It returns Null for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.

An XML document can contain a document type declaration before the first element in the document. It starts with the tag <!DOCTYPE> and can specify an external DTD.

Implemented in:

MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0

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