xml Property1
Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's XML value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.
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.xml); }
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml
HRESULT get_xml(
BSTR *xmlString);
Parameters
xmlString[out, retval]
An XML representation of this node and all its descendants.
C/C++ Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the xmlString property is Null.
The property is read-only.
The xml property always returns a Unicode string. That is, the xml property for DOMDocument converts the document from its original encoding to Unicode. As a result, the original encoding attribute is removed. For example, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> appears in the xml property as follows.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
If the original encoding was not removed by the xml property, the following line returns an error indicating the parser cannot switch from Unicode to UTF-8 encoding.
xmlDoc.loadxml(xmlDoc.xml);
If you use the save method, the original encoding is preserved. For example, if you load a document in Microsoft® Windows® 1252 encoding, it will be saved in that format.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.
| NODE_ATTRIBUTE NODE_CDATA_SECTION NODE_COMMENT NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_ELEMENT NODE_ENTITY NODE_NOTATION NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION NODE_TEXT | Returns the string representation of the node and all its descendants. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT | Returns the string representation of all descendant nodes of the document fragment. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Returns the string representation of the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, including the internal subset if specified. |
| NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns the string representation of the entity reference. Although the entity reference has children, they are not returned. |
This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).
Implemented in:
MSXML 2.0 and later
IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText
nodeType Property1
save Method (DOMDocument)
Persistence and the DOM