attributes Property

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Contains the list of attributes for this node.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNamedNodeMap = oXMLDOMNode.attributes

Remarks

Object. The property is read-only. Returns an XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object for nodes that can return attributes (Element, Entity, and Notation nodes). Returns NULL for all other node types. Note that for the valid node types, the NamedNodeMap is always returned; when there are no attributes on the element, the list length is set to zero.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT	Always returns null.
NODE_ELEMENT	Returns an XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object that contains a list of nodes corresponding to the attributes of the element.
NODE_ENTITY, NODE_NOTATION	Returns an XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object that exposes the PUBLIC ID, SYSTEM ID, and NDATA as attributes.

Example

The following example creates an XMLDOMNamedNodeMap object from a document's attributes property, then displays the number of nodes in the object:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim oNamedNodeMap

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set oNamedNodeMap = xmlDoc.documentElement.attributes
MsgBox oNamedNodeMap.length

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.	XMLDOMAttribute, XMLDOMCDATASection, XMLDOMCharacterData, XMLDOMComment, XMLDOMDocument, XMLDOMDocumentFragment, XMLDOMDocumentType, XMLDOMElement, XMLDOMEntity, XMLDOMEntityReference, XMLDOMNode, XMLDOMNotation, XMLDOMProcessingInstruction, XMLDOMText, XTLRuntime