xml Property
Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.
strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml;
HRESULT get_xml(
BSTR* xmlString
);
General Remarks
Note that 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.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 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).
This property is read-only, and applies to the following objects and interfaces:
IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMCharacterData, IXMLDOMComment, DOMDocument, IXMLDOMDocumentFragment, IXMLDOMDocumentType, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMEntity, IXMLDOMEntityReference, IXMLDOMNode, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, and IXTLRuntime
See Also
save Method | nodeType Property
Last updated on Saturday, April 10, 2004
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