getElementsByTagName Method

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Returns a collection of elements that have the specified name.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNodeList = 
    oXMLDOMDocument.getElementsByTagName(tagname)

Parameters

tagname

String specifying the element name to find. The tagname "*" returns all elements in the document.

Returns

Object. Points to a collection of elements that match the specified name.

Remarks

The elements in the collection are returned in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the document tree. In a preorder traversal, the parent root node is visited first, and each child node from left to right is then traversed.

The returned XMLDOMNodeList object is live and immediately reflects changes to the nodes that appear in the list.

More complex searches can be performed using the selectNodes method, which may also be faster in some cases.

Example

The following example creates an XMLDOMNodeList object using the XMLDOMDocument object's getElementsByTagName method, then displays all of the elements with the desired tag name:

Dim ElemList
Dim xmlDoc

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set ElemList = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("AUTHOR")

For i=0 To (ElemList.length -1)
  MsgBox (ElemList.item(i).xml)
Next

Applies To

[ Object Name ] Platform Version Win16: Win32: Mac: Unix: WinCE: Version data is listed when the mouse hovers over a link, or the link has focus.	XMLDOMDocument