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| Inherits from: | Element object | |||
| JavaScript syntax: | IE | myXML = myDocument.all.anElementID | ||
| IE | myXML = myDocument.all.tags("XML")[anIndex] | |||
| IE | myXML = myDocument.all[aName] | |||
| - | myXML = myDocument.getElementById(anElementID) | |||
| - | myXML = myDocument.getElementsByName(aName)[anIndex] | |||
| - | myXML = myDocument.getElementsByTagName("XML")[anIndex] | |||
| Argument list: | anIndex | A reference to an element in a collection | ||
| aName | An associative array reference | |||
| anElementID | The ID value of an Element object | |||
| Object properties: | canHaveHTML, defer, event, htmlFor, src, text, type | |||
| Event handlers: | onDataAvailable, onDatasetChanged, onDatasetComplete, onReadyStateChange, onRowEnter, onRowExit, onRowsDelete, onRowsInserted | |||
The MSIE browser can now cope with pages delivered as arbitrary blocks of XML. If it encounters an <XML> tag, then it will instantiate one of these objects to provide JavaScript binding to it. This can also be used to build a small island of XML based content in the middle of an HTML page.
The XML data can sit in an HTML page like this:
<XML ID="myBlock"> <METADATA> <OWNER>Wrox</OWNER> <DATATYPE>Example</DATATYPE> <ABSTRACT>This is an example block of text</ABSTRACT> </METADATA> </XML>
Accessing the text property of the XML object will return all the inner text inside it. To access the components you will need to access the XMLDocument property to expose a DOM document interface. This can be explored using DOM compatible methods and properties.
| See also: | Document.readyState, onRowEnter, onRowExit |
| Property | JavaScript | JScript | Nav | IE | Opera | NES | ECMA | DOM | CSS | HTML | Notes |
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| canHaveHTML |  | 5.0  | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| defer | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| event | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| htmlFor | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| src | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| text | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| type | | 5.0 | | 5.0 | | | | | | | - |
| Event name | JavaScript | JScript | Nav | IE | Opera | NES | ECMA | DOM | CSS | HTML | Notes |
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| onDataAvailable | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onDatasetChanged | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onDatasetComplete | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onReadyStateChange | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onRowEnter | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onRowExit | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onRowsDelete | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
| onRowsInserted | | 3.0 | | 4.0 | | | | | | | - |
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