doctype Property1
Contains the document type node that specifies the document type definition (DTD) for this document.
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype;
Example
The following script example creates an IXMLDOMDocumentType object, and then displays the name property of the object.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
var MyDocType;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
MyDocType = xmlDoc.doctype;
if (MyDocType != null) {
WScript.Echo(MyDocType.name);
}
}
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMDocumentType = oXMLDOMDocument.doctype
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_doctype(
IXMLDOMDocumentType **documentType);
Parameters
documentType[out, retval]
For XML, the address of the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE that specifies the DTD. Returns Null for for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.
C/C++ Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if successful.
S_FALSE
The value returned when there is no document type node.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the documentType parameter is Null.
Remarks
The property is read-only. For XML, it points to the node of type NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE that specifies the DTD. It returns Null for HTML documents and XML documents without a DTD.
An XML document can contain a document type declaration before the first element in the document. It starts with the tag <!DOCTYPE> and can specify an external DTD.
Versioning
Implemented in:
MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0