XML DOM loadXML() method

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Definition and usage

The loadXML() method assembles the document by parsing an XML tag string.

Syntax:

loadXML(text)
Parameter Description
text The XML tag to be parsed.

Description

This specific IE method parses the specified XML text string and then builds a DOM node tree in the current document object, discarding any nodes that previously existed in the document.

This method represents the HTML document Document objectdoes not exist. A new, empty Document objectto save the parsed content:

var doc = new ActivexObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument");
doc.loadXML(markup);

See DOMParser.parseFromString() to understand a non-IE alternative method.

See

DOMParser.parseFromString()

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