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specified Property

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

boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.specified;

HRESULT get_specified(
  VARIANT_BOOL* isSpecified
);

General 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

See Also

nodeType Property

 Last updated on Saturday, April 10, 2004

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