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

xml Property

Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.

[Script]

Script Syntax

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml;

Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's XML value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var currNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
   alert(currNode.xml);
}
[Visual Basic]

Visual Basic Syntax

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic® example creates an IXMLDOMNode of type NODE_ENTITY, and then displays the object's XML value, including that of any of the object's child nodes.

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim currNode As IXMLDOMNode
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 currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.Item(0)
   MsgBox currNode.xml
End If
[C/C++]

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_xml(
    BSTR *xmlString);

Parameters

xmlString [out, retval]
An XML representation of this node and all its descendants.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the xmlString property is Null.

Remarks

The property is read-only.

The xml property always returns a Unicode string. That is, the xml property for DOMDocument converts the document from its original encoding to Unicode. As a result, the original encoding attribute is removed. For example, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> appears in the xml property as follows.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

If the original encoding was not removed by the xml property, the following line returns an error indicating the parser cannot switch from Unicode to UTF-8 encoding.

xmlDoc.loadxml(xmlDoc.xml);

If you use the save method, the original encoding is preserved. For example, if you load a document in Microsoft® Windows® 1252 encoding, it will be saved in that format.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE

NODE_CDATA_SECTION

NODE_COMMENT

NODE_DOCUMENT

NODE_ELEMENT

NODE_ENTITY

NODE_NOTATION

NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION

NODE_TEXT

Returns the string representation of the node and all its descendants.
NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT Returns the string representation of all descendant nodes of the document fragment.
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE Returns the string representation of the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, including the internal subset if specified.
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE Returns the string representation of the entity reference. Although the entity reference has children, they are not returned.

This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).

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See Also

nodeType Property | save method | Persistence and the DOM

Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText