specified Property (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

Indicates whether the node (usually an attribute) is explicitly specified or derived from a default value in the document type definition (DTD) or schema.

Script Syntax

            boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.specified;

Remarks

Script Parameters

None.

Script Return Value

Boolean. Returns True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element. Returns False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_specified(
  VARIANT_BOOL* isSpecified
);

Remarks

C/C++ Parameters

• isSpecified
  [out, retval] True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element; False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.

C/C++ Return Values

• S_OK
  Value returned if successful.

• E_INVALIDARG
  Value returned if isSpecified is Null.

Requirements

Header	msxml2.h, msxml2.idl
Windows Embedded CE	Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later

General Remarks

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value	Description
NODE_ATTRIBUTE	Returns True if the attribute was specified directly on the element. Returns False for default attributes.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT	Returns True.

This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).

This property is read-only, and applies to the following objects and interfaces:

IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMCharacterData, IXMLDOMComment, DOMDocument, IXMLDOMDocumentFragment, IXMLDOMDocumentType, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMEntity, IXMLDOMEntityReference, IXMLDOMNode, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, and IXTLRuntime

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Properties

Concepts

nodeType Property