Microsoft DOM Objects Reference

getAttribute()

Syntax

vntValue = objXMLDOMElement.getAttribute(strAttributeName)

Remark

If your element has an associated attribute, you can look up the string value of that attribute its name. It then returns the attributes value (nodeValue) in a variant datatype.

Example

In the following example, we have already loaded our people2.xml file into a DOMDocument (objDOMDocument). We add a new Person element and its attribute. Once we have added this element, we get the value of the attribute for this element.

Dim objPerson As IXMLDOMElement

Dim objAttrib As IXMLDOMAttribute

Dim vntValue As Variant

Set objPerson = objDOMDocument.createElement("PERSON")

Set objAttrib = objDOMDocument.createAttribute("PERSONID")

objAttrib.Text = "p7"

objPerson.Attributes.setNamedItem objAttrib

objDOMDocument.documentElement.appendChild objPerson

vntValue = objPerson.getAttribute("PERSONID")

vntValue returns "p7," the value of the attribute.

¬ As an alternative to this method, see the nodeFromID() method for getting an attribute when you know the id value but you want to find its associated Node.

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