Document Class

Use the Document class to process XML content. You can parse nested XML content that’s up to 50 nodes deep.

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One common application is to use it to create the body of a request for HttpRequest or to parse a response accessed by HttpResponse.

• Document Constructors

• Document Methods

See Also

• Reading and Writing XML Using the DOM

The following are constructors for Document.

• Document()

  Creates a new instance of the Dom.Document class.

Creates a new instance of the Dom.Document class.

public Document()

The following are methods for Document. All are instance methods.

• createRootElement(name, namespace, prefix)

  Creates the top-level root element for a document.

• getRootElement()

  Returns the top-level root element node in the document. If this method returns null, the root element has not been created yet.

• load(xml)

  Parse the XML representation of the document specified in the xml argument and load it into a document.

• toXmlString()

  Returns the XML representation of the document as a String.

Creates the top-level root element for a document.

public Dom.XmlNode createRootElement(String name, String namespace, String prefix)

• name: Type: String
• namespace: Type: String
• prefix: Type: String

Type: Dom.XmlNode

For more information about namespaces, see Reading and Writing XML Using the DOM.

Calling this method more than once on a document generates an error as a document can have only one root element.

Returns the top-level root element node in the document. If this method returns null, the root element has not been created yet.

public Dom.XmlNode getRootElement()

Type: Dom.XmlNode

Parse the XML representation of the document specified in the xml argument and load it into a document.

public Void load(String xml)

• xml: Type: String

Type: Void

Returns the XML representation of the document as a String.

public String toXmlString()

Type: String