XMLDOMNamedNodeMap

This is the other collection object in the DOM. It is used to iterate through the attributes for a specific element. It also allows you to manipulate the attribute collection for an element. To name a few, methods include getNamedItem(), removeNamedItem(), etc. The XMLDOMNamedNodeMap also supports namespaces as well.

Example

The following example returns the number of attributes found in the root element of a DOM object.

Dim objDOMDocument As DOMDocument
Dim objXMLDOMNamedNodeMap As IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap
Set objDOMDocument = New DOMDocument
objDOMDocument.async = False
objDOMDocument.Load "http://localhost/xmlcode/people2.dtd"
Set objXMLDOMNamedNodeMap = objDOMDocument.documentElement.Attributes
MsgBox "The number of attribute are " & objXMLDOMNamedNodeMap.length

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