IDOMAttribute Interface

This interface represents an attribute object.

IDOMAttribute Methods

name	Contains the attribute name.
specified	Indicates whether the value for this attribute is explicitly specified or derived from a default value.
value	Contains the attribute value.

Remarks

The DOMAttribute object represents an attribute of the IDOMElement object. Allowed values for the attribute are usually defined in a document type definition (DTD) or schema.

IDOMAttribute objects inherit the IDOMNode object, but are not actually child nodes of the element and are not considered part of the document tree. Attributes are considered to be properties of their associated elements, rather than independent and separate. Thus, the object's parentNode, previousSibling, and nextSibling properties have the value NULL.

Attribute nodes cannot be the immediate children of the IDOMDocumentFragment node. However, they can be associated with element nodes that are children of the IDocumentFragment node.

In this object, the relationship between the value and specified properties can be summarized as follows: If the attribute has an assigned value in the document and specified is true, the value is the assigned value. If the attribute has no assigned value in the document and has a default value in the DTD, the specified property is false, and the value is the default value in the DTD. If the attribute has no assigned value in the document and has a value of #IMPLIED in the DTD, the attribute does not appear in the structure model of the document.

In XML, the value of an attribute is represented by the child nodes of the attribute node, since the value can contain entity references. Thus, attributes that contain entity references will have a child list containing both text nodes and entity reference nodes. In addition, because the attribute type might be unknown, there are no tokenized attribute values.

Interface Information

Implementation	Msxml.dll
Inherits from	IDOMNode
Header and IDL files	Msxml.h, Dom.idl
Minimum availability	Internet Explorer 5 Beta
Minimum operating systems	Windows 95, Windows NT

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