setAttribute Method (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

Sets the value of the named attribute.

Syntax

oXMLDOMElement.setAttribute(name, value);

HRESULT setAttribute(
  BSTR  name,
  VARIANT  value
);

Parameters

Script

• name
  String specifying the name of the attribute. If the attribute with that name already exists, its value is changed. If the attribute with that name does not exist, it is created.

• value
  Variant that supplies the value for the named attribute.

C/C++

• name
  [in] Name of the attribute. If an attribute with that name already exists, its value is changed. If an attribute with that name does not exist, it is created.

• value
  [in] Value for the named attribute.

Return Value

Script

None.

C/C++

• S_OK
  Value returned if successful.

• E_FAIL
  Value returned if an error occurs.

Remarks

If an attribute with the supplied name already exists, this method changes its value to the supplied value parameter. The supplied string is not parsed, so any markup, such as syntax meant to be recognized as an entity reference, is treated as literal text and must be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out.

To assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create IXMLDOMAttribute plus any IXMLDOMText and IXMLDOMEntityReference objects, build the appropriate subtree, and call the setAttributeNode Method.

This method applies to the following objects and interfaces:

IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMText, and IXMLDOMEntityReference.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Methods