IXMLDOMDocument::get_xml Method

Contains the XML representation of the node and all its descendants.

Syntax

HRESULT get_xml(
    BSTR * xmlString);

Parameters

xmlString

[in,out] XML representation of this node and all its descendants.

Return Value

Returns S_OK if successful, or an error code otherwise.

Remarks

Note that invalid encoding options are not preserved in the xml property. For example, the Microsoft XML implementation supports Unicode only and does not support the "UTF-8" encoding option. Accordingly, the XML processing instruction:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

appears in the xml property as:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property:

NODE_ATTRIBUTE , NODE_CDATA_SECTION , NODE_COMMENT , NODE_DOCUMENT , NODE_ELEMENT , NODE_ENTITY , NODE_NOTATION , NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION , NODE_TEXT	Returns the string representation of the node and all its descendants.
NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT	Returns the string representation of all descendant nodes of the document fragment.
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE	Returns the string representation of the <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration, including the internal subset if specified.
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns the string representation of the entity reference. Although the entity reference has children, they are not returned.

See Also

IXMLDOMDocument

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