Microsoft DOM Objects Reference

parseError

Is a member of:

XMLDOMDocument

Syntax

set objXMLDOMParseError = objDOMDocument.parseError

Remark

This property is read-only. This property returns an XMLDOMParseError object. The returned object is always a valid object. When you are dealing with the DOMDocument interface, it inherits the XMLDOMParseError interface; therefore all the properties of the XMLDOMParseError object are exposed in the DOMDocument object (for example, the parseError property). This means you can interrogate any errors immediately after you have loaded your DOMDocument, without having to set an XMLDOMParseError object.

Example

In the following example, we demonstrate using the reason property of the XMLDOMParseError object from the DOMDocument object.

If objDOMDocument.parseError.reason <> "" Then

'there has been an error with the loaded XML - show the reason

MsgBox objDOMDocument.parseError.reason

End If

However, if you want to interrogate any errors in any of the other types of Nodes, you have to get the XMLDOMParseError object to find any of the error properties:

Set objXMLDOMParseError = objXMLDOMElement.parseError

If objXMLDOMParseError.reason <> "" then

Msgbox objXMLDOMParseError.reason

end if

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