xml Property1

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

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml;  

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.3.0");
var currNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
   WScript.Echo(currNode.xml);
}

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.xml  

HRESULT get_xml(  
    BSTR *xmlString);  

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

S_OK
The value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the xmlString property is Null.

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.

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

Implemented in:

MSXML 2.0 and later

IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText

nodeType Property1
save Method (DOMDocument)
Persistence and the DOM