Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - DOM Reference

responseXML Property (IXMLHTTPRequest)

Represents the parsed response entity body.

[Script]

Script Syntax

var objDispatch = oXMLHttpRequest.responseXML;

Example

var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0");
xmlhttp.open("GET", "http://localhost/sample.xml", false);
xmlhttp.send();
alert(xmlhttp.responseXML.xml);
[Visual Basic]

Visual Basic Syntax

Set objDispatch = oXMLHttpRequest.responseXML

Example

Dim xmlhttp As New Msxml2.XMLHTTP50
xmlhttp.open "GET", "http://localhost/sample.xml", False
xmlhttp.send
MsgBox xmlhttp.responseXML.xml
[C/C++]

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_responseXML(IDispatch** ppBody);

Parameters

ppBody [out, retval]
The response entity body as an XML document.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_PENDING
The value returned if the data is unavailable.

Remarks

The property is read-only. For security reasons, the parser validation features are always turned off to prevent Microsoft® XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office from attempting to download a document type definition (DTD) or XML-Data definition. If the response entity body is not valid XML, this property returns DOMDocument that was parsed so that you can access the error. This property does not return IXMLDOMParseError itself, but it is accessible from DOMDocument.

If the response was generated by an Active Server Pages (ASP) page and the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type was not correctly set to "text/xml" using the ASP method Response.ContentType, responseXML will be empty.

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See Also

DOMDocument | IXMLDOMParseError | responseBody Property | responseStream Property | responseText Property

Applies to: IXMLHTTPRequest