xml Property

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

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml

Remarks

The property is read-only.

Note that the xml property always returns a Unicode string. That is, the xml property for the DOMDocument object 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:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

If the original encoding wasn't removed by the xml property, the following line would return 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. So if you load a document in Windows-1252 encoding, it will be saved in that format, and so on.

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 W3C DOM.

Example

The following VBScript example creates an XMLDOMNode object (of type NODE_ENTITY), and then displays the object's XML value (including that of any of the object's child nodes):

Dim xmlDoc
Dim currNode
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0)
MsgBox currNode.xml

xml Property

Remarks

Example

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