Microsoft DOM Objects Reference

data

Is a member of:

XMLDOMCDATASection XMLDOMComment XMLDOMProcessingInstruction XMLDOMText

Syntax

strValue = objXMLDOMComment.data

objXMLDOMComment.data = strValue

Remark

This property is readable and writable. Depending on the type of Node, it returns the same value as the nodeValue property. Please see the nodeValue property for more details.

Example

Dim objDOMDocument As DOMDocument

Dim objXMLDOMNode As IXMLDOMNode

Dim objXMLDOMPI As IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction

Set objDOMDocument = New DOMDocument

objDOMDocument.async = False

objDOMDocument.Load "http://localhost/xmlcode/people2.xml"

For Each objXMLDOMNode In objDOMDocument.childNodes

If objXMLDOMNode.nodeType = NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION Then

Set objXMLDOMPI = objXMLDOMNode

MsgBox "The PI is : " & objXMLDOMPI.Data

End If

Next

¬ Check that the nodeType is a Processing Instruction.

¬ Cast the PI object from the Node object.

¬ Retrieve the PI's text using the data property, which from our XML example, returns version="1.0."

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