nodeName Property

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Contains the qualified name of the element, attribute, or entity reference, or a fixed string for other node types.

Syntax

strValue = oXMLDOMNode.nodeName

Remarks

String. The property is read-only and always contains a non-empty string. The nodeName property contains the qualified name for the element, attribute, or entity reference. For example, it returns xxx:yyy for the element <xxx:yyy>.

The node name value varies, depending on the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE	Contains the name of the attribute.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION	Contains the literal string "#cdata-section".
NODE_COMMENT	Contains the literal string "#comment".
NODE_DOCUMENT	Contains the literal string "#document".
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE	Contains the name of the document type; for example, xxx in <!DOCTYPE xxx ...>.
NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT	Contains the literal string "#document-fragment".
NODE_ELEMENT	Contains the name of the XML tag, with any namespace prefix included if present.
NODE_ENTITY	Contains the name of the entity.
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Contains the name of the entity referenced. Note that the name does not include the leading ampersand or the trailing semicolon. The name includes the namespace if one is present.
NODE_NOTATION	Contains the name of the notation.
NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	Contains the target; the first token following the <? characters.
NODE_TEXT	Contains the literal string "#text".

Example

The following VBScript example creates an XMLDOMNode object and displays its name :

Dim xmlDoc
Dim currNode

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0)
MsgBox currNode.nodeName

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