XML Element | xml Object

Defines an>XML data island on an HTML page.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the xml object. Click a tab on the left to choose the type of member you want to view.

Attributes/Properties

Attribute	Property	Description
	canHaveHTML	Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup.
ID	id	Retrieves the string identifying the object.
	isContentEditable	Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can edit the contents of the object.
	isDisabled	Retrieves the value indicating 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.
	scopeName	Retrieves the>namespace defined for the element.
SRC	src	Sets or retrieves a URL to be loaded by the object.
	tagUrn	Sets or retrieves the Uniform Resource Name (URN) specified in the namespace declaration.
	XMLDocument	Retrieves a reference to the XML Document Object Model (DOM) exposed by the object.

Behaviors

Behavior	Description
clientCaps	Provides information about features supported by Microsoft® 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
behaviorUrns	Returns a collection of Uniform Resource Name (URN) strings identifying the behaviors attached to the element.

Events

Event	Description
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.

Methods

Method	Description
addBehavior	Attaches a behavior to the element.
componentFromPoint	Returns the component located at the specified coordinates via certain events.
fireEvent	Fires a specified event on the object.
getAttributeNode	Retrieves an attribute object referenced by the attribute.name property.
namedRecordset	Retrieves the recordset object corresponding to the named data member from a data source object (DSO).
normalize	Merges adjacent TextNode objects to produce a normalized document object model.
removeAttributeNode	Removes an attribute object from the object.
removeBehavior	Detaches a behavior from the element.
setAttributeNode	Sets an attribute object node as part of the object.

Styles

Style attribute	Style property	Description
behavior	behavior	Sets or retrieves the location of the Introduction to DHTML Behaviors.
text-autospace	textAutospace	Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text.
text-underline-position	textUnderlinePosition	Sets or retrieves the position of the underline decoration that is set through the textDecoration property of the object.

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 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 oNode = oMetaData.XMLDocument.selectSingleNode("METADATA/ABSTRACT");
   alert(oNode.text);

Standards Information

object is a Microsoft extension to HTML .