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specified Property (Compact 2013)

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3/26/2014

Indicates whether the node (usually an attribute) is explicitly specified or derived from a default value in the document type definition (DTD) or schema.

Syntax

boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.specified;

HRESULT get_specified(VARIANT_BOOL* isSpecified);

Parameters

Script

None.

C/C++

  • isSpecified
    [out, retval] True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element; False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.

Return Value

Script

Boolean. Returns True if the attribute is explicitly specified in the element. Returns False if the attribute value comes from the DTD or schema.

C/C++

  • S_OK
    Value returned if successful.
  • E_INVALIDARG
    Value returned if isSpecified is Null.

Remarks

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value

Description

NODE_ATTRIBUTE

Returns True if the attribute was specified directly on the element. Returns False for default attributes.

NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT

Returns True.

This member is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).

This 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

Requirements

Header

msxml2.h,
msxml2.idl

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Properties
nodeType Property