nodeValue Property

Article
10/27/2016

Contains the text associated with the node.

Script Syntax

objValue = oXMLDOMNode.nodeValue;  
objXMLDOMNode.nodeValue = objValue;

Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode object and tests if it is a comment node. If it is, it displays its value.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
var currNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.loadXML("<root><!-- Hello --></root>");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
   if (currNode.nodeTypeString == "comment") {
      WScript.Echo(currNode.nodeValue);
   }
}

Visual Basic Syntax

objValue = oXMLDOMNode.nodeValue  
objXMLDOMNode.nodeValue = objValue

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_nodeValue(  
    VARIANT *value);  
HRESULT put_nodeValue(  
    VARIANT value);

Parameters

value[out, retval][in]
Node value; depends on the nodeType property.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK
Value returned if successful.

S_FALSE (for get_nodeValueonly)
Value when returning Null.

E_INVALIDARG (for get_nodeValueonly)
Value returned if the value parameter is Null.

E_FAIL (for get_nodeValueonly)
Value returned if an error occurs.

Remarks

Variant. The property is read/write.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE	Contains a string representing the value of the attribute. For attributes with subnodes, this is the concatenated text of all subnodes with entities expanded. Setting this value deletes all children of the node and replaces them with a single text node containing the value written.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION	Contains a string representing the text stored in the CDATA section.
NODE_COMMENT	Contains the content of the comment, exclusive of the comment's start and end sequence.
NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT NODE_ELEMENT NODE_ENTITY NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE NODE_NOTATION	Contains Null. Note that attempting to set the value of nodes of these types generates an error.
NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	Contains the content of the processing instruction, excluding the target. (The target appears in the `nodeName` property.)
NODE_TEXT	Contains a string representing the text stored in the text node.

Versioning

Implemented in:

MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0

Applies to