DOMErrorHandling JScript example

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The following JScript example attempts to load an invalid XML document. The parser encounters an error and uses xmlDoc.parseError.reason to get the error message. For more information on other properties of the parseError object, see IXMLDOMParseError Members, in XML DOM Reference.

Source Listing for DOMErrorHandling.js

Copy the data in the following listing. Save the file as DOMErrorHandling.js.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) 
{
   WScript.Echo(xmlDoc.parseError.reason);
} 
else 
{
   WScript.Echo(xmlDoc.documentElement.xml);
}

XML Data File (books.xml)

Copy the data from Resource: books.xml for DOMErrorHandling example and save it as books.xml, in the same directory where you saved DOMErrorHandling.js.

Output

When you run DOMErrorHandling.js, you should get the following error message:

End tag 'book' does not match the start tag 'review'.