Defines an XML data island on an HTML page.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the xml object.

Attributes/Properties

Show: Attributes/Properties Behaviors Collections Events Methods Styles

Attribute Property Description aria-busy   ariaBusy Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether a live region is finished updating. aria-checked   ariaChecked Sets or retrieves the checked state of this element. aria-controls   ariaControls Sets or retrieves the list of elements that are controlled by the current element. aria-describedby   ariaDescribedby Sets or retrieves a list of elements that describe the current object. aria-disabled   ariaDisabled Sets or retrieves the disabled state of this element. aria-expanded   ariaExpanded Sets or retrieves the expanded state of this element. aria-flowto   ariaFlowto Sets or retrieves the recommended reading order of content. aria-haspopup   ariaHaspopup Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether this element may display a pop-up window. aria-hidden   ariaHidden Sets or retrieves the hidden state of this element. aria-invalid   ariaInvalid Sets or retrieves the invalid state of this element. aria-labelledby   ariaLabelledby Sets or retrieves a list of elements that provide a label for the current object. aria-level   ariaLevel Sets or retrieves the level of this element. aria-multiselect   ariaMultiselect Sets or retrieves the multiple-selection state of this element. aria-owns   ariaOwns Sets or retrieves a list of child objects, including elements that are not direct descendants of the current object. aria-posinset   ariaPosinset Sets or retrieves the current position of an item within a set. aria-pressed   ariaPressed Sets or retrieves the pressed state of a button that can be toggled. aria-readonly   ariaReadonly Sets or retrieves the read-only state of this element. aria-required   ariaRequired Sets or retrieves the form-completion requirement of this element. aria-secret   ariaSecret Sets or retrieves the secret state of this element. aria-selected   ariaSelected Sets or retrieves the selection state of this element. aria-setsize   ariaSetsize Sets or retrieves the set size of this element. aria-valuemax   ariaValuemax Sets or retrieves the maximum value that a user can provide. aria-valuemin   ariaValuemin Sets or retrieves the minimum value that a user can provide. aria-valuenow   ariaValuenow Sets or retrieves the current value of the element. attributes   Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object. canHaveHTML Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. ID id Retrieves the string identifying the object. isContentEditable Gets the value that indicates whether the user can edit the contents of the object. isDisabled Gets the value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object. isMultiLine Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines. parentElement Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy. readyState Retrieves the current state of the object. recordset Sets or retrieves from a data source object a reference to the default record set.    role Sets or retrieves the role for this element. scopeName Gets the namespace defined for the element. SRC src Sets or retrieves a URL to be loaded by the object. tagUrn Sets or gets the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration. XMLDocument Retrieves a reference to the XML Behavior Description clientCaps Provides information about features supported by Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand. download Downloads a file and notifies a specified callback function when the download is complete. homePage Contains information about a user's homepage. Collection Description behaviorUrns Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element. Event Description ondataavailable Fires periodically as data arrives from data source objects that asynchronously transmit their data. ondatasetchanged Fires when the data set exposed by a data source object changes. ondatasetcomplete Fires to indicate that all data is available from the data source object. onreadystatechange Fires when the state of the object has changed. onrowenter Fires to indicate that the current row has changed in the data source and new data values are available on the object. onrowexit Fires just before the data source control changes the current row in the object. onrowsdelete Fires when rows are about to be deleted from the recordset. onrowsinserted Fires just after new rows are inserted in the current recordset. Method Description addBehavior Attaches a behavior to the element. componentFromPoint Returns the component located at the specified coordinates via certain events. fireEvent Fires a specified event on the object. getAttribute   Retrieves the value of the specified attribute. getAttributeNode Gets an attribute object referenced by the attribute.name property. hasAttribute   Determines whether an attribute with the specified name exists. namedRecordset Retrieves the recordset object corresponding to the named data member from a data source object (DSO). normalize Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model. removeAttribute   Removes the given attribute from the object. removeAttributeNode Removes an attribute object from the object. removeBehavior Detaches a behavior from the element. setAttributeNode Sets an attribute object node as part of the object. Style attribute Style property Description behavior behavior Sets or retrieves the location of the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) behavior. text-autospace textAutospace Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text. text-underline-position textUnderlinePosition Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object.

Remarks

The readyState property of the XML element, available as a string value, corresponds to the readyState property of the XMLDOMDocument object, which is available as a long value. The string values correspond to the long values of the XML document object's property as shown in the examples section.

The XMLDocument property is the default property.

This element is available in HTML and script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.

This element is not rendered.

This element requires a closing tag.

Examples

This example uses the XML element to define a simple XML data island that can be embedded directly in an HTML page.

<XML ID="oMetaData"> <METADATA> <AUTHOR>John Smith</AUTHOR> <GENERATOR>Visual Notepad</GENERATOR> <PAGETYPE>Reference</PAGETYPE> <ABSTRACT>Specifies a data island</ABSTRACT> </METADATA> </XML>

This example uses the readyState property of the xml object to determine whether the XML data island is completely downloaded.

if (oMetaData.readyState == "complete") window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");

This example uses the readyState property of the XMLDOMDocument object to determine whether the XML data island is completely downloaded.

if (oMetaData.XMLDocument.readyState == 4) window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");

This script example retrieves the text contained within the ABSTRACT field of the data island.

var oNode = oMetaData.XMLDocument.selectSingleNode("METADATA/ABSTRACT"); alert(oNode.text);

Standards Information

This object is a Microsoft extension to HTML .