matches Method
Checks if the node that is passed is contained in the current collection.
JScript Syntax
objXMLDOMNode = objXMLDOMSelection.matches(objXMLDOMNode);
Example
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
var oSelection, nodeBook, node;
xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.loadXML("<root><child/></root>");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//child");
oSelection = xmlDoc.selectNodes("//*");
node = oSelection.matches(nodeBook);
WScript.Echo(node.xml);
}
Output
Outputs the books.xml file.
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT matches(IXMLDOMNode* pNode, IXMLDOMNode** ppNode);
Parameters
pNode[in]
The node that is passed in.
ppNode[out, retval]
The Boolean result.
Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if method successful.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the pNodeparameter isNull.
An error for cases that are not allowed, as outlined in the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) specification (applied to ID, IDREF, and Ancestor).
Remarks
When matches is called with node A, it returns node B such that if B was set as the context on a query, A is in the result set of the query. If no such B node is found, matches returns Null.
The matches method does not take into account the current context of the query.
Versioning
Implemented in: MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 6.0