definition Property

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Returns the definition of the node in the DTD or schema.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.definition

Remarks

Object. The property is read-only. Returns the node that contains the definition for the entity referenced.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns the node for the entity referenced; that is, the ENTITY element that was defined for a given ENTITYREF. Given the ENTITYREF &x;, for example, the definition property returns the node in the DOCTYPE node's entity collection that defines the corresponding ENTITY: <!ENTITY x "y">.
NODE_ENTITY	For unparsed entities, returns the NOTATION definition from the DOCTYPE node's notation collection. For example, given the ENTITY <!ENTITY networth SYSTEM "networth.xls" NDATA XLS>, the definition property returns the node corresponding to the notation <!NOTATION XLS PUBLIC "http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel/">. For parsed entities, returns NULL.
NODE_ATTRIBUTE	Returns the XML-Data Schema AttributeType for a given ATTRIBUTE node. For example, the definition property for the attribute myAttribute="123" returns the node corresponding to the element <AttributeType name= "myAttribute"> in the schema. Returns NULL when a DTD is used or when no schema is present.
NODE_ELEMENT	Returns the XML-Data Schema ElementType for a given ELEMENT node. For example, given the element <myelement>, the definition property returns the node <ElementType name="myelement"> in the specified external schema. Returns NULL when a DTD is used or when no schema is present.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT	Returns NULL.

This member is an extension of the W3C DOM.

Applies To