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XML DOM inputEncoding Property

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Definition and Usage

The inputEncoding property returns the encoding used for the document (when parsing).

Syntax

documentObject.inputEncoding

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and displays the XML encoding, standalone attribute, and XML version of the document:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

document.write("XML encoding: " + xmlDoc.xmlEncoding);
document.write("<br />");
document.write("XML standalone: " + xmlDoc.xmlStandalone);
document.write("<br />");
document.write("XML version: " + xmlDoc.xmlVersion);
document.write("<br />");
document.write("Encoding when parsing: " + xmlDoc.inputEncoding);

Output:

XML encoding: ISO-8859-1
XML standalone: false
XML version: 1.0
Encoding when parsing: ISO-8859-1

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