XML DOM

XML DOM Contents

The DOM Property: validateOnParse

The DOM Property: url

The DOM Property: text

The DOM Property: tagName

The DOM Property: resolveExternals

The DOM Property: preserveWhiteSpace

The DOM Property: prefix

The DOM Property: parseError

The DOM Property: parsed

The DOM Property: parentNode

The DOM Property: ownerDocument

The DOM Property: ondataavailable

The DOM Property: nodeValue

The DOM Property: nodeTypeString

The DOM Property: nodeTypedValue

The DOM Property: nodeType

The DOM Property: nodeName

The DOM Property: namespaceURI

The DOM Property: length

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XML DOM objects

First we need to explain the various, common DOM objects that you will use with the MSXML DOM Object.

We will focus on the examples of these XML DOM objects shown in table:

Object name	Description
DOMDocument	This object represents the root of the XML file.
XML DOM Element	This object represents each element in the DOM- Document, namely the root, root element, and each other element.
XML DOM Node	This object represents a single Node in the document tree and includes support for data types, namespaces, DTDs, and XML Schemas.
XML DOM NodeList	Use this object to access (by name) and iterate through the XMLDOMNode collection.
XML DOM NamedNodeMap	Use this object to access and iterate through the attributes in an element.
XML DOM CDATASection	This object represents a section in the value of an ele ment that is closed in the CDATA section brackets, which are characters that cannot be parsed by the XML.
XML DOM Attribute	This object represents a single attribute Node for a given element.
XML DOM DocumentType	This object represents the Document Type (DTD) in an XML file.
XML DOM Entity	This object represents an entity in the DTD section of the XML file.
XML DOM ProcessingInstruction	This object represents a processing instruction found in the XML file.
XML DOM ParseError	This object returns detailed information about the last error, including the line number, character position, and a text description.
XMLHTTPRequest	This object enables you to establish a connection to a web server from your code and send put, get, and other standard HTML requests.

In our examples, we will refer to these objects using the names listed in table .

0.0.1 XML object naming conventions

XML object interface	Our naming convention
DOMDocument	objDOMDocument
XML DOM Node	objXMLDOMNode
XML DOM NodeList	objXMLDOMNodeList
XML DOM NodeListMap	objXMLDOMNodeListMap
XML DOM ParseError	objXMLDOMParseError
XML DOM Element	objXMLDOMElement
XML DOM Attribute	objXMLDOMAttribute

This manuscript is an abridged version of a chapter from the Manning Publications book XML Programming with VB and ASP. This chapter looks at the Microsoft DOM objects. NOTE: Most images have been removed to increase speed and many of the code comments have also been removed for presentation. Please purchase the book to enjoy the full experience of all the chapters with images and code comments!