XML DOM Properties
The following table shows the XML DOM properties, with a description of the purpose of each.
| Programming element | Description |
|---|---|
| async Property | Specifies if asynchronous download is permitted. |
| attributes Property | Contains the list of attributes for this node. |
| baseName Property | Returns the base name for the name qualified with the namespace. |
| childNodes Property | Contains a node list containing the children nodes. |
| context Property | Gets the node (subtree) that is applied to the selection. |
| data Property (IXMLDOMCharacterData) | Stores the node data depending on the node type. |
| data Property (IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction) | Retrieves and sets the content of the processing instruction, excluding the target. |
| dataType Property | Specifies the data type for this node. |
| definition Property | Returns the definition of the node in the document type definition (DTD) or schema. |
| doctype Property | Contains the document type node that specifies the document type definition (DTD) for this document. |
| documentElement Property | Contains the root element of the document. |
| entities Property | Contains a list of the entities declared in the DOCTYPE declaration. |
| errorCode Property | Contains the error code of the last parse error. |
| expr Property | Gets or sets the XML Path Language (XPath) expression string. |
| filepos Property | Contains the absolute file position where the error occurred. |
| firstChild Property | Contains the first child of the node. |
| implementation Property | Contains IXMLDOMImplementation for the document. |
| input Property | Specifies which XML input tree to transform. |
| lastChild Property | Returns the last child node. |
| length Property (IXMLDOMCharacterData) | Specifies the length, in characters, of the data. |
| length Property (IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap) | Indicates the number of items in the collection. |
| length Property (IXMLDOMNodeList) | Indicates the number of items in the collection. |
| length Property (XMLSchemaCache/IXMLSchemaCollection) | Returns the number of namespaces currently in the collection. |
| line Property | Specifies the line number that contains the error. |
| linepos Property | Contains the character position within the line where the error occurred. |
| name Property (IXMLDOMAttribute) | Contains the attribute name. |
| name Property (IXMLDOMDocumentType) | Contains the name of the document type. |
| namespaces Property | Returns the list of namespaces used in the document as XMLSchemaCache. |
| namespaceURI Property (IXMLDOMNode) | Returns the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the namespace. |
| namespaceURI Property (XMLSchemaCache/IXMLSchemaCollection) | Returns the namespace at the specified index. |
| nextSibling Property | Contains the next sibling of the node in the parent's child list. |
| nodeName Property | Contains the qualified name of the element, attribute, or entity reference, or a fixed string for other node types. |
| nodeType Property | Specifies the XML Document Object Model (DOM) node type, which determines valid values and whether the node can have child nodes. |
| nodeTypedValue Property | Contains the node value expressed in its defined data type. |
| nodeTypeString Property | Returns the node type in string form. |
| nodeValue Property | Contains the text associated with the node. |
| notationName Property | Contains the notation name. |
| notations Property | Contains a list of the IXMLDOMNotation members that are present in the document type declaration. |
| ondataavailable Property | Specifies the event handler for the ondataavailable Event. |
| onreadystatechange Property (DOMDocument) | Specifies the event handler to be called when the onreadystatechange Property (DOMDocument) changes. |
| ontransformnode Property | Specifies the event handler for the ontransformnode event. |
| output Property | Gets a custom output to write the result of the transformation. |
| ownerDocument Property | Returns the root of the document that contains the node. |
| parentNode Property | Contains the parent node. |
| parsed Property | Indicates the parsed status of the node and child nodes. |
| parseError Property | Returns IXMLDOMParseError that contains information about the last parsing error. |
| prefix Property | Returns the namespace prefix. |
| preserveWhiteSpace Property | Specifies the default white space handling. |
| previousSibling Property | Contains the previous sibling of the node in the parent's child list. |
| publicId Property (IXMLDOMEntity) | Contains the public identifier associated with the entity. |
| publicId Property (IXMLDOMNotation) | Contains the public identifier for the notation. |
| readyState Property (DOMDocument) | Indicates the current state of the XML document. |
| reason Property | Describes the reason for the error. |
| resolveExternals Property | Indicates whether external definitions, resolvable namespaces, document type definition (DTD) external subsets, and external entity references, are to be resolved at parse time, independent of validation. |
| schemas Property | Finds schema documents during load. |
| specified Property | Indicates whether the node (usually an attribute) is explicitly specified or derived from a default value in the document type definition (DTD) or schema. |
| srcText Property | Returns the full text of the line containing the error. |
| systemId Property (IXMLDOMEntity) | Contains the system identifier associated with the entity. |
| systemId Property (IXMLDOMNotation) | Contains the system identifier for the notation. |
| tagName Property | Contains the element name. |
| target Property | Specifies the target for the processing instruction. |
| text Property | Represents the text content of the node or the concatenated text representing the node and its descendants. |
| url Property (DOMDocument) | Returns the URL for the last loaded XML document. |
| url Property (IXMLDOMParseError) | Contains the URL of the XML document containing the last error. |
| validateOnParse Property | Indicates whether the parser should validate this document. |
| value Property | Contains the attribute value. |
| xml Property | Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants. |
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