XML Element | XML Object

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Defines an XML data island on an HTML page.

HTML Syntax

<XML
   ID = value
   NS = sNamespace
   PREFIX = sPrefix
   SRC = sUrl
   event  = script
></XML>

Remarks

Members

XML Members

Example

The following HTML fragment defines a simple XML data island that can be embedded directly in an HTML page.
<XML ID="oMetaData">
  <METADATA>
     <AUTHOR>John Smith</AUTHOR>
     <GENERATOR>Visual Notepad</GENERATOR>
     <PAGETYPE>Reference</PAGETYPE>
     <ABSTRACT>Specifies a data island</ABSTRACT>
  </METADATA>
</XML>
The following script retrieves the text contained within the ABSTRACT field of the data island.
   var oNode = oMetaData.XMLDocument.selectSingleNode("METADATA/ABSTRACT");
   alert(oNode.text);

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