XML DOM Methods
The following table shows the XML DOM methods, with a description of the purpose of each.
| Programming element | Description |
|---|---|
| abort Method (DOMDocument) | This method aborts an asynchronous download in progress. |
| add Method | Adds a new schema to the schema collection and associates the given namespace Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) with the specified schema. |
| addCollection Method | Adds schemas from another collection into the current collection and replaces any schemas that collide on the same namespace Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). |
| appendChild Method | Appends newChild as the last child of the node. |
| appendData Method | Appends the supplied string to the existing string data. |
| clone Method | Clones a copy of the current IXMLDOMSelection, with the same position and context. |
| cloneNode Method | Clones a new node. |
| createAttribute Method | Creates a new attribute with the specified name. |
| createCDATASection Method | Creates a CDATA section node that contains the supplied data. |
| createComment Method | Creates a comment node that contains the supplied data. |
| createDocumentFragment Method | Creates an empty IXMLDOMDocumentFragment object. |
| createElement Method | Creates an element node using the specified name. |
| createEntityReference Method | Creates a new EntityReference object. |
| createNode Method | Creates a node using the supplied type, name, and namespace. |
| createProcessingInstruction Method | Creates a processing instruction node that contains the supplied target and data. |
| createTextNode Method | Creates a text node that contains the supplied data. |
| deleteData Method | Deletes specified data. |
| get Method | Returns a read-only XML Document Object Model (DOM) node that contains the <Schema> element. |
| getAttribute Method | Retrieves the value of the attribute. |
| getAttributeNode Method | Retrieves the attribute node. |
| getElementsByTagName Method (DOMDocument) | Returns a collection of elements that have the specified name. |
| getElementsByTagName Method (IXMLDOMElement) | Returns a list of all descendant elements that match the supplied name. |
| getNamedItem Method | Retrieves the attribute with the specified name. |
| getProperty Method (IXMLDOMDocument2) | Returns the default properties. |
| getProperty Method (IXMLDOMSelection) | Returns a property. |
| getQualifiedItem Method | Returns the attribute with the specified namespace and attribute name. |
| hasChildNodes Method | Returns True if this node has children. |
| hasFeature Method | Returns True if the specified version of the implementation supports the specified feature. |
| insertBefore Method | Inserts a child node to the left of the specified node or at the end of the list. |
| insertData Method | Inserts a string at the specified offset. |
| item Method (IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap) | Allows random access to individual nodes within the collection. |
| item Method (IXMLDOMNodeList) | Allows random access to individual nodes within the collection. |
| load Method | Loads an XML document from the specified location. |
| loadXML Method | Loads an XML document using the supplied string. |
| matches Method | Checks if the node that is passed is contained in the current collection. |
| nextNode Method (IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap) | Returns the next node in the collection. |
| nextNode Method (IXMLDOMNodeList) | Returns the next node in the collection. |
| nodeFromID Method | Returns the node that matches the ID attribute. |
| normalize Method | Normalizes all descendant elements by combining two or more adjacent text nodes into one unified text node. |
| peekNode Method | Gets the next node that nextNode Method (IXMLDOMNodeList) will return without advancing the list position. |
| remove Method | Removes the specified namespace from a collection. |
| removeAll Method | Removes all the nodes from the collection described by the IXMLDOMSelection. |
| removeAttribute Method | Removes or replaces the named attribute. |
| removeAttributeNode Method | Removes the specified attribute from this element. |
| removeChild Method | Removes the specified child node from the list of children and returns it. |
| removeNamedItem Method | Removes an attribute from the collection. |
| removeNext Method | Removes the next node. |
| removeQualifiedItem Method | Removes the attribute with the specified namespace and attribute name. |
| replaceChild Method | Replaces the specified old child node with the supplied new child node. |
| replaceData Method | Replaces the specified number of characters with the supplied string. |
| reset Method (IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap) | Resets the iterator. |
| reset Method (IXMLDOMNodeList) | Resets the iterator. |
| save Method | Saves an XML document to the specified location. |
| selectNodes Method | Applies the specified pattern-matching operation to this node's context and returns the list of matching nodes as IXMLDOMNodeList. |
| selectSingleNode Method | Applies the specified pattern-matching operation to this node's context and returns the first matching node. |
| setAttribute Method | Sets the value of the named attribute. |
| setAttributeNode Method | Sets or updates the supplied attribute node on this element. |
| setNamedItem Method | Adds the supplied node to the collection. |
| setProperty Method | Used for setting the SelectionLanguageServerHTTPRequest, or SelectionNamespaces internal properties (flags). |
| setStartMode Method | Performs subsets of larger Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) by selecting the XSLT mode with which to start. |
| splitText Method | Splits this text node into two text nodes at the specified offset and inserts the new text node into the tree as a sibling that immediately follows this node. |
| substringData Method | Retrieves a substring of the full string from the specified range. |
| transformNode Method | Processes this node and its children using the supplied Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) style sheet and returns the resulting transformation. |
| transformNodeToObject Method | Processes this node and its children using the supplied Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) style sheet and returns the resulting transformation. |
| validate Method | Performs run-time validation on the currently loaded document using the currently loaded document type definition (DTD), schema, or schema collection. |
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