Defines an XML data island on an HTML page.
Members Table
The following table lists the members exposed by the
xml
object.
Attributes/Properties
Attribute | Property | Description |
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| ariaBusy |
Sets or retrieves the busy state of this element.
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| ariaChecked |
Sets or retrieves the checked state of this element.
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| ariaDisabled |
Sets or retrieves the disabled state of this element.
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| ariaExpanded |
Sets or retrieves the expanded state of this element.
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| ariaHaspopup |
Sets or retrieves a value indicating whether
this element may display a pop-up window.
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| ariaHidden |
Sets or retrieves the hidden state of this element.
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| ariaInvalid |
Sets or retrieves the invalid state of this element.
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| ariaLevel |
Sets or retrieves the level of this element.
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| ariaMultiselect |
Sets or retrieves the multiple-selection state of this element.
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| ariaPosinset |
Sets or retrieves the current position of an item within a set.
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| ariaPressed |
Sets or retrieves the pressed state of a button that can be toggled.
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| ariaReadonly |
Sets or retrieves the read-only state of this element.
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| ariaRequired |
Sets or retrieves the form-completion requirement of this element.
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| ariaSecret |
Sets or retrieves the secret state of this element.
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| ariaSelected |
Sets or retrieves the selection state of this element.
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| ariaSetsize |
Sets or retrieves the set size of this element.
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| attributes |
Retrieves a collection of attributes of the object. |
| canHaveHTML |
Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup. |
ID | id |
Retrieves the string identifying the object. |
| isContentEditable |
Gets the value that indicates whether the user can edit the contents of the object. |
| isDisabled |
Gets the value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object. |
| isMultiLine |
Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines. |
| parentElement |
Retrieves the parent object in the object hierarchy. |
| readyState |
Retrieves the current state of the object. |
| recordset |
Sets or retrieves from a data source object a reference to the default record set. |
| role |
Sets or retrieves the role for this element.
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| scopeName |
Gets the namespace defined for the element. |
SRC | src |
Sets or retrieves a URL to be loaded by the object. |
| tagUrn |
Sets or gets the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration. |
| XMLDocument |
Retrieves a reference to the XML |
Behaviors
Behavior | Description |
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clientCaps |
Provides information about features supported by Internet Explorer, as well as a way for installing browser components on demand. |
download |
Downloads a file and notifies a specified callback function when the download is complete. |
homePage |
Contains information about a user's homepage. |
Collections
Collection | Description |
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behaviorUrns |
Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element. |
Events
Event | Description |
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ondataavailable |
Fires periodically as data arrives from data source objects that asynchronously transmit their data. |
ondatasetchanged |
Fires when the data set exposed by a data source object changes. |
ondatasetcomplete |
Fires to indicate that all data is available from the data source object. |
onreadystatechange |
Fires when the state of the object has changed. |
onrowenter |
Fires to indicate that the current row has changed in the data source and new data values are available on the object. |
onrowexit |
Fires just before the data source control changes the current row in the object. |
onrowsdelete |
Fires when rows are about to be deleted from the recordset. |
onrowsinserted |
Fires just after new rows are inserted in the current recordset. |
MethodsStyles
Remarks
The readyState property of the XML element, available as a string value, corresponds to the readyState property of the XMLDOMDocument object, which is available as a long value. The string values correspond to the long values of the XML document object's property as shown in the examples section.
The XMLDocument property is the default property.
This element is available in HTML and script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.
This element is not rendered.
This element requires a closing tag.
Examples
This example uses the XML element to define a simple XML data island that can be embedded directly in an HTML page.
<XML ID="oMetaData">
<METADATA>
<AUTHOR>John Smith</AUTHOR>
<GENERATOR>Visual Notepad</GENERATOR>
<PAGETYPE>Reference</PAGETYPE>
<ABSTRACT>Specifies a data island</ABSTRACT>
</METADATA>
</XML>
This example uses the readyState property of the xml object to determine whether the XML data island is completely downloaded.
if (oMetaData.readyState == "complete")
window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");
This example uses the readyState property of the XMLDOMDocument object to determine whether the XML data island is completely downloaded.
if (oMetaData.XMLDocument.readyState == 4)
window.alert ("The XML document is ready.");
This script example retrieves the text contained within the ABSTRACT field of the data island.
var "METADATA/ABSTRACT");
alert(oNode.text);
Standards Information
This object is a Microsoft extension to
HTML .