Parsing the DOM

Using the XML parser

To read and update - create and manipulate - an XML document, you need an XML parser. The Microsoft XML parser is a COM component that comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0. Once you have installed IE 5.0, the parser is available to scripts inside HTML documents and ASP files.

The Microsoft XMLDOM parser features a language-neutral programming model that:

• Supports JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, VB, Java, C++ and more
• Supports W3C XML 1.0 and XML DOM
• Supports DTD and validation

If you are using JavaScript in IE 5.0, you can create an XML document object with the following code:

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")