nodeName Property1
Returns the qualified name for attribute, document type, element, entity, or notation nodes. Returns a fixed string for all other node types. Read-only.
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.nodeName;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode object and displays its name.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0"); var currNode; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0); WScript.Echo(currNode.nodeName); }
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.nodeName
HRESULT get_nodeName(
BSTR *name);
Parameters
name[out, retval]
Node name, which varies depending on the node type.
C/C++ Return Values
S_OK
Value returned if successful.
E_INVALIDARG
Value returned if the name parameter is Null.
String. The property is read-only and always contains a non-empty string. The nodeName property contains the qualified name for the element, attribute, or entity reference. For example, it returns xxx:yyy for the element <xxx:yyy>.
The node name value varies, depending on the nodeType property.
| NODE_ATTRIBUTE | Contains the name of the attribute. |
| NODE_CDATA_SECTION | Contains the literal string "#cdata-section". |
| NODE_COMMENT | Contains the literal string "#comment". |
| NODE_DOCUMENT | Contains the literal string "#document". |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Contains the name of the document type; for example, xxx in <!DOCTYPE xxx ...>. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT | Contains the literal string "#document-fragment". |
| NODE_ELEMENT | Contains the name of the XML tag, with any namespace prefix included if present. |
| NODE_ENTITY | Contains the name of the entity. |
| NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Contains the name of the entity referenced. Note that the name does not include the leading ampersand or the trailing semicolon. The name includes the namespace if one is present. |
| NODE_NOTATION | Contains the name of the notation. |
| NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION | Contains the target; the first token following the <? characters. |
| NODE_TEXT | Contains the literal string "#text". |
Implemented in: MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0
IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText