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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>IE XML DOM Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function createXMLDOM() {
var arrSignatures = ["MSXML2.DOMDocument.5.0", "MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0",
"MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0", "MSXML2.DOMDocument",
"Microsoft.XmlDom"];
for (var i=0; i < arrSignatures.length; i++) {
try {
var oXmlDom = new ActiveXObject(arrSignatures[i]);
return oXmlDom;
} catch (oError) {
//ignore
}
}
throw new Error("MSXML not installed on your system.");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>This example loads an XML file <em>synchronously</em>.</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var oXmlDom = createXMLDOM();
oXmlDom.async = false;
oXmlDom.load("test.xml");
alert("Tag name of the root element is " + oXmlDom.documentElement.tagName);
alert("The root element has this many children: " + oXmlDom.documentElement.childNodes.length);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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