value Property

Script Syntax

objValue = oXMLDOMAttribute.value;
objXMLDOMAttribute.value = objValue;

Example

The following script example gets the value of the first attribute of the document root and assigns it to the variable myVar.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var myVar;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   root = xmlDoc.documentElement;
   myVar = root.firstChild.attributes.item(0).value;
   alert(myVar);
}

Visual Basic Syntax

objValue = oXMLDOMAttribute.value
objXMLDOMAttribute.value = objValue

Example

The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example gets the value of the first attribute of the document root and assigns it to the variable myVar.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim myVar As Variant
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 root = xmlDoc.documentElement
   myVar = root.firstChild.Attributes.Item(0).Value
   MsgBox myVar
End If

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_value(
    VARIANT *attributeValue);
HRESULT put_value(
    VARIANT *attributeValue);

Parameters

attributeValue [out, retval][in]

The value of the attribute. For attributes with subnodes, the string is the concatenated text of all subnodes with character and general entity reference expanded (replaced with their values).

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

The value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG (for get_value only)

The value returned if the attributeValue parameter is Null.

E_FAIL (for put_value only)

The value returned if an error occurs.