XML DOMAttribute

The XMLDOMAttribute object represents an attribute for an element. Attributes are properties of an element, thus not really children of an element. As mentioned in the XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object, the collection of attributes for an element are returned in the XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object, which returns an XMLDOMAttribute object (or an XMLDOMNode object, as it inherits the XMLDOMNode interface).

The attributes are usually defined in the DTD or Schema of the XML file.

Example

In the following example we get an attribute object from the first child of the root element object, using the attributes name (which was defined in the DTD) to return the attribute object.

Dim objDOMDocument As DOMDocument
Dim objXMLDOMElement As IXMLDOMElement
Dim objXMLDOMAttribute As IXMLDOMAttribute
Set objDOMDocument = New DOMDocument
objDOMDocument.async = False
objDOMDocument.Load "http://localhost/xmlcode/people2.dtd"
Set objXMLDOMElement = objDOMDocument.documentElement.firstChild
Set objXMLDOMAttribute = objXMLDOMElement.getAttribute-
Node("PERSONID")

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