validate Method

Script Syntax

objXMLDOMDocument2.validate();

Return Value

A ParseError object indicating exactly what error occurred, if any.

Example

The following Microsoft® JScript® example shows how to validate at runtime.

var xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
xmldoc.async = false
// This will validate on load because validateOnParse is set to true 
// by default.
xmldoc.load("http://server/myData.xml");
// You make a change to an attribute:
xmldoc.documentElement.setAttribute("a", "123");
// Now you want to verify your document is still valid:
var err = xmldoc.validate();
if (err.errorCode == 0)
{
   alert("Document is valid");
}
else
{
   alert("Validation error:" + err.reason);
} 

Visual Basic Syntax

objXMLDOMDocument2.validate

Return Value

A ParseError object indicating exactly what error occurred, if any.

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT validate(IXMLDOMParseError ** errorObj);

C/C++ Return Values

An IErrorInfo containing a formatted error message indicating what went wrong, and one of the following HRESULTs (also returned in the ErrorInfo.Number property).

The following possible validation errors returned with S_FALSE are listed, together with the errorCode value.