removeAttributeNode Method
Removes the specified attribute from this element.
JScript Syntax
var objXMLDOMAttribute = oXMLDOMElement.removeAttributeNode(DOMAttribute);
Parameters
DOMAttribute
An object that supplies the IXMLDOMAttribute object to be removed from this element.
Return Value
An object. Returns the removed element.
Example
Note
You can use books.xml to run this sample code.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
var nodeBook, nodeId;
xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
nodeBook = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//book");
nodeId = nodeBook.getAttributeNode("id");
WScript.Echo(nodeBook.attributes.length);
nodeBook.removeAttributeNode(nodeId);
WScript.Echo(nodeBook.attributes.length);
}
Output
1
0
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT removeAttributeNode(
IXMLDOMAttribute *DOMAttribute,
IXMLDOMAttribute **attributeNode);
Parameters
DOMAttribute[in]
The DOMAttribute object that is to be removed from this element.
attributeNode[out, retval]
The removed element.
Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_FAIL
The value returned if an error occurs.
Remarks
If the attribute has a default value, this call also creates a new attribute with the default value, associates the new attribute with this element, and resets the attribute's specified property.
Versioning
Implemented in: MSXML 3.0 and lMSXML 6.0