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