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4/8/2010

Returns the namespace prefix.

Script Syntax

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strValue = oXMLDOMNode.prefix;

Remarks

Script Parameters

None.

Script Return Value

String. It returns the namespace prefix specified. For example, for the element <xxx:yyy>, it returns "xxx". It returns an empty string, "", if no prefix is specified.

C/C++ Syntax

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HRESULT get_prefix( BSTR* prefixString );

Remarks

C/C++ Parameters

prefixString: [out, retval] Namespace prefix specified on the element, attribute, or entity reference. For example, for the element <xxx:yyy>, it returns xxx. It returns an empty string, "", if no prefix is specified.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK: Value returned if successful.

S_FALSE: Value returned when there is no prefix.

E_INVALIDARG: Value returned if prefixStringis Null.

Requirements

Header	msxml2.h, msxml2.idl
Windows Embedded CE	Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later

General Remarks

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



prefix Property