Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.
Syntax
value = oXMLDOMNode.xml
Remarks
The property is read-only.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.
| NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT | Returns the string representation of the node and all its descendants. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT | Returns the string representation of all descendant nodes of the document fragment. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Returns the string representation of the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, including the internal subset if specified. |
| NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns the string representation of the entity reference. Although the entity reference has children, they are not returned. |
This member is an extension of the W3C DOM.
Example
The following example creates an XMLDOMNode object (of type NODE_ENTITY), then displays the object's XML value (including that of any of the object's child nodes):
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.xml
Applies To
XMLDOMAttribute, XMLDOMCDATASection, XMLDOMCharacterData, XMLDOMComment, XMLDOMDocument, XMLDOMDocumentFragment, XMLDOMDocumentType, XMLDOMElement, XMLDOMEntity, XMLDOMEntityReference, XMLDOMNode, XMLDOMNotation, XMLDOMProcessingInstruction, XMLDOMText, XTLRuntime
See Also