doctype Property

Script Syntax

var objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype;

Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType object, and then displays the name property of the object.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var MyDocType;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype;
   if (MyDocType != null) {
      alert(MyDocType.name);
   }
}

Visual Basic Syntax

Set objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype

Example

The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType object, and then displays the name property of the object.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim MyDocType As IXMLDOMDocumentType
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml")
If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then
   Dim myErr
   Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError
   MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason)
Else
   Set MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype
   If Not MyDocType Is Nothing Then
      MsgBox MyDocType.Name
   End If
End If

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_doctype(
    IXMLDOMDocumentType **documentType);

Parameters

documentType [out, retval]

For XML, the address of the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE that specifies the DTD. Returns Null for for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

The value returned if successful.

S_FALSE

The value returned when there is no document type node.

E_INVALIDARG

The value returned if the documentType parameter is Null.