Using the DOM with the SOM
[This topic discusses a feature that was only implemented for MSXML 6.0.]
The DOM has two methods that return schema objects. The first is the getDeclaration method of the IXMLDOMSchemaCollection2 interface. This method returns an XML Schema declaration. This declaration is used to validate the DOM node parameter sent to the method. The XML Schema declaration is returned as a schemaItem object. You can query the schemaItem using the SOM ISchemaItem interface.
The second is the getSchema method of the IXMLDOMSchemaCollection2 interface. This method returns an ISchema object. You can obtain more information about the schema object by using the ISchema interface.