XmlElement.GetAttributeNode Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml

Assembly:

System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Return the specified XmlAttribute.

Overloads

GetAttributeNode(String)	Returns the XmlAttribute with the specified name.
GetAttributeNode(String, String)	Returns the XmlAttribute with the specified local name and namespace URI.

GetAttributeNode(String)

Source:

XmlElement.cs

Returns the XmlAttribute with the specified name.

public:
 virtual System::Xml::XmlAttribute ^ GetAttributeNode(System::String ^ name);

public virtual System.Xml.XmlAttribute? GetAttributeNode (string name);

abstract member GetAttributeNode : string -> System.Xml.XmlAttribute
override this.GetAttributeNode : string -> System.Xml.XmlAttribute

Public Overridable Function GetAttributeNode (name As String) As XmlAttribute

Parameters

name

String

The name of the attribute to retrieve. This is a qualified name. It is matched against the Name property of the matching node.

Returns

XmlAttribute

The specified XmlAttribute or null if a matching attribute was not found.

Examples

The following example checks to see if the element has the specified attribute.

#using <System.Xml.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Xml;
int main()
{
   XmlDocument^ doc = gcnew XmlDocument;
   doc->LoadXml( "<book genre='novel' ISBN='1-861001-57-5'><title>Pride And Prejudice</title></book>" );
   XmlElement^ root = doc->DocumentElement;
   
   // Check to see if the element has a genre attribute.
   if ( root->HasAttribute( "genre" ) )
   {
      XmlAttribute^ attr = root->GetAttributeNode( "genre" );
      Console::WriteLine( attr->Value );
   }
}

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;

public class Sample
{
  public static void Main()
  {

    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.LoadXml("<book genre='novel' ISBN='1-861001-57-5'>" +
                "<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>" +
                "</book>");

    XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;

    // Check to see if the element has a genre attribute.
    if (root.HasAttribute("genre")){
      XmlAttribute attr = root.GetAttributeNode("genre");
      Console.WriteLine(attr.Value);
   }
  }
}

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml

public class Sample

  public shared sub Main()

    Dim doc as XmlDocument = new XmlDocument()
    doc.LoadXml("<book genre='novel' ISBN='1-861001-57-5'>" & _
                "<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>" & _
                "</book>")      

    Dim root as XmlElement = doc.DocumentElement

    ' Check to see if the element has a genre attribute.
    if (root.HasAttribute("genre"))
     Dim attr as XmlAttribute = root.GetAttributeNode("genre")
     Console.WriteLine(attr.Value)
    end if
       
    Console.WriteLine("Display the modified XML...")
    Console.WriteLine(doc.InnerXml)

  end sub
end class

GetAttributeNode(String, String)

Source:

XmlElement.cs

Returns the XmlAttribute with the specified local name and namespace URI.

public:
 virtual System::Xml::XmlAttribute ^ GetAttributeNode(System::String ^ localName, System::String ^ namespaceURI);

public virtual System.Xml.XmlAttribute? GetAttributeNode (string localName, string? namespaceURI);

abstract member GetAttributeNode : string * string -> System.Xml.XmlAttribute
override this.GetAttributeNode : string * string -> System.Xml.XmlAttribute

Public Overridable Function GetAttributeNode (localName As String, namespaceURI As String) As XmlAttribute

Parameters

localName

String

The local name of the attribute.

namespaceURI

String

The namespace URI of the attribute.

Returns

XmlAttribute

The specified XmlAttribute or null if a matching attribute was not found.