XML DOM Parse Error
Object
Microsoft's parseError object can be used to retrieve error information from Microsoft's XML parser.
To see how Firefox handles parser errors, check the next page of this tutorial.
parseError Object
A parser error (parser-error) may occur when you try to open an XML document.
With this parseError object, you can retrieve the error code, error text, the line causing the error, and more.
Note: The parseError object is not part of the W3C DOM standard!
File Error
In the following code, we attempt to load a non-existent file and display certain error properties:
Example
XML Error
In the following code, we will have the parser load a malformed XML document.
(You can read more about well-formed and valid XML in our XML Tutorial.)
Example
View XML File: note_error.xml
Properties of the parseError Object
Property | Description |
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errorCode | Returns a long integer error code. |
reason | Returns a string containing the reason for the error. |
line | Returns a long integer representing the line number of the error. |
linepos | Returns a long integer representing the line position of the error. |
srcText | Returns a string containing the line that caused the error. |
url | Returns the URL of the loaded document. |
filepos | Returns a long integer file position of the error. |