definition Property (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

Returns the definition of the node in the document type definition (DTD) or schema.

Script Syntax

var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.definition;

Remarks

Script Parameters

None.

Script Return Value

Object. Returns the node that contains the definition for the entity referenced.

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_definition(
  IXMLDOMNode** definitionNode
);

Remarks

C/C++ Parameters

• definitionNode
  [out, retval] Node that contains the definition for the entity referenced.

C/C++ Return Values

• S_OK
  Value returned if successful.

• S_FALSE
  Value returned when no definition is found.

• E_INVALIDARG
  Value returned if definitionNode is Null.

Requirements

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

General Remarks

The definition property is not supported when using inline schemas. This behavior is by design because the node being referenced can be deleted or modified after the document is loaded, yielding unpredictable results.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value	Description
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns the node for the entity referenced; that is, the ENTITY element that was defined for a given ENTITYREF. Given the ENTITYREF &x;, for example, the definition property returns the node in the DOCTYPE node's entity collection that defines the corresponding ENTITY: <!ENTITY x "y">.
NODE_ENTITY	For unparsed entities, returns the NOTATION definition from the DOCTYPE node's notation collection. For example, given the ENTITY <!ENTITY networth SYSTEM "networth.xls" NDATA XLS>, the definition property returns the node corresponding to the notation <!NOTATION XLS PUBLIC "http://example.microsoft.com/office/excel">. For parsed entities, returns Null.
NODE_ATTRIBUTE	Returns the XML-Data Schema AttributeType for a given ATTRIBUTE node. For example, the definition property for the attribute myAttribute="123" returns the node corresponding to the element <AttributeType name= "myAttribute"> in the schema. Returns Null when a DTD is used or when no schema is present.
NODE_ELEMENT	Returns the XML-Data Schema ElementType for a given ELEMENT node. For example, given the element <myelement>, the definition property returns the node <ElementType name="myelement"> in the specified external schema. Returns Null when a DTD is used or when no schema is present.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT	Returns Null.

The definition property is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM). The 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