target Property

Specifies the target—the application to which this processing instruction is directed.

strValue = oXMLDOMProcessingInstruction.target

Remarks

String. The property is read-only. XML defines the target as the first token following the markup that begins the processing instruction. For example, the target has the value "xml" in the processing instruction <?xml version="1.0">.

The target property has the same value as the nodeName property.

Example

The following VBScript example iterates through the document's child nodes. If it finds a node of type NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION (7), it displays the node's target:

Dim xmlDoc
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
For i = 0 TO (xmlDoc.childNodes.length -1)
  If xmlDoc.childNodes.item(i).nodeType = 7 Then
    msgBox xmlDoc.childNodes.item(i).target
  End If
Next

See Also

Applies To: XMLDOMProcessingInstruction Object