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data Property


Contains the content of the processing instruction, excluding the target.

Syntax

strValue = oXMLDOMProcessingInstruction.data
objXMLDOMProcessingInstruction.data = strValue

Remarks

String. The property is read/write. The data has the same value as the nodeValue property.

Example

The following example iterates through the document's child nodes. If it finds a node of type NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION (7), it displays the node's data:

Dim xmlDoc

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
For i = 0 TO (xmlDoc.childNodes.length -1)
  If xmlDoc.childNodes.item(i).nodeType = 7 Then 
    MsgBox xmlDoc.childNodes.item(i).data
  End If
Next

Applies To

[ Object Name ]
PlatformVersion
Win16:
Win32:
Mac:
Unix:
WinCE:
XMLDOMProcessingInstruction


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