createDocumentFragment Method

 

Creates an empty IXMLDOMDocumentFragment object.

JScript Syntax

var objXMLDOMDocumentFragment = oXMLDOMDocument.createDocumentFragment();  

Return Value

An object. Returns the empty IXMLDOMDocumentFragment object.

Example

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");  
var docFragment;  
xmlDoc.async = false;  
xmlDoc.loadXML("<root/>");  
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {  
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;  
   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);  
} else {  
   docFragment = xmlDoc.createDocumentFragment();  
   docFragment.appendChild(xmlDoc.createElement("node1"));  
   docFragment.appendChild(xmlDoc.createElement("node2"));  
   docFragment.appendChild(xmlDoc.createElement("node3"));  
   WScript.Echo("fragment: " + docFragment.xml);  
   xmlDoc.documentElement.appendChild(docFragment);  
   WScript.Echo("document: " + xmlDoc.xml);  
}  

Output

fragment: <node1/><node2/><node3/>  
document: <root></root>  

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT createDocumentFragment(  
    IXMLDOMDocumentFragment **docFrag);  

Parameters

docFrag[out, retval]
The address of the empty IXMLDOMDocumentFragment.

Return Values

S_OK
The value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the docFrag parameter is Null.

E_FAIL
The value returned if an error occurs.

Remarks

Creating a document fragment with this method is the same as using createNode where the type parameter value is NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT and no namespace is specified. You cannot specify a namespace with the createDocumentFragment method.

Although this method creates the new object in the context of this document, it does not automatically add the new object to the document tree. In other words, although the ownerDocument property of the new node points to this document object, the parentNode property is set to Null. To add the new object, you must explicitly call one of the node insert methods, insertBefore method, replaceChild method, or appendChild method.

The nodeType property has the value NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT.

Versioning

Implemented in: MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 6.0

Applies to

IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument

See Also

createNode Method
ownerDocument Property
parentNode Property1
nodeType Property1
insertBefore Method
replaceChild Method
appendChild Method
IXMLDOMDocumentFragment