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XML DOM specified Property

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Definition and Usage

The specified property returns true if the attribute value is set in the document, and false if it's a default value in a DTD/Schema.

Syntax

attrObject.specified

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and displays the name and value of the category attribute:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x.item(i).attributes[0].specified);
document.write("<br />");
}

Output:

true
true
true
true

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Attr Object Reference Complete Attr Object Reference

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