xml

NN n/a IE 5(Win) DOM n/a

The xml object reflects the Microsoft proprietary xml element, creating a so-called XML data island inside an HTML document.

HTML Equivalent

<xml>

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.getElementById("elementID")

Object-Specific Properties

src	XMLDocument

Object-Specific Methods

None.

Object-Specific Event Handler Properties

None.

src	NN n/a IE 5(Win) DOM n/a
	Read/Write
Contains the URL of the external XML document loaded into the data island. To load a new document after the fact, assign a new URL to this property.

Example

document.getElementById("xmlData").src = "xml/latestResults.xml";

Value
Relative or complete URL string.

Default
None.

XMLDocument	NN n/a IE 5(Win) DOM n/a
	Read-only
This is a reference to the Microsoft XML document object. This object resembles the W3C DOM core document object in many ways, but Microsoft provides a different syntax to read and write data from the object. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/reference/xmldom/start.asp for details.

Example

var xmlDoc = document.getElementById("XMLData").XMLDocument;

Value
Reference to an MS XML document object.

Default
None.