XmlDocument.GetElementById(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml

Assembly:

System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XmlDocument.cs

Gets the XmlElement with the specified ID.

public:
 virtual System::Xml::XmlElement ^ GetElementById(System::String ^ elementId);

public virtual System.Xml.XmlElement? GetElementById (string elementId);

abstract member GetElementById : string -> System.Xml.XmlElement
override this.GetElementById : string -> System.Xml.XmlElement

Public Overridable Function GetElementById (elementId As String) As XmlElement

Parameters

elementId

String

The attribute ID to match.

Returns

XmlElement

The XmlElement with the matching ID or null if no matching element is found.

Examples

The following example uses the GetElementById method.

#using <System.Xml.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Xml;
int main()
{
   XmlDocument^ doc = gcnew XmlDocument;
   doc->Load( "ids.xml" );
   
   //Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A111.
   //This displays the node <Person SSN="A111" Name="Fred"/>.
   XmlElement^ elem = doc->GetElementById( "A111" );
   Console::WriteLine( elem->OuterXml );
   
   //Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A222.
   //This displays the node <Person SSN="A222" Name="Tom"/>.
   elem = doc->GetElementById( "A222" );
   Console::WriteLine( elem->OuterXml );
}

using System;
using System.Xml;

public class Sample
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    doc.Load("ids.xml");

    //Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A111.
    //This displays the node <Person SSN="A111" Name="Fred"/>.
    XmlElement elem = doc.GetElementById("A111");
    Console.WriteLine( elem.OuterXml );

    //Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A222.
    //This displays the node <Person SSN="A222" Name="Tom"/>.
    elem = doc.GetElementById("A222");
    Console.WriteLine( elem.OuterXml );
  }
}

Option Explicit
Option Strict

Imports System.Xml

Public Class Sample
    
    Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim doc As New XmlDocument()
        doc.Load("ids.xml")
        
        'Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A111.
        'This displays the node <Person SSN="A111" Name="Fred"/>.
        Dim elem As XmlElement = doc.GetElementById("A111")
        Console.WriteLine(elem.OuterXml)
        
        'Get the first element with an attribute of type ID and value of A222.
        'This displays the node <Person SSN="A222" Name="Tom"/>.
        elem = doc.GetElementById("A222")
        Console.WriteLine(elem.OuterXml)
    End Sub
End Class

The example uses the file, ids.xml, as input.

<!DOCTYPE root [
  <!ELEMENT root ANY>
  <!ELEMENT Person ANY>
  <!ELEMENT Customer EMPTY>
  <!ELEMENT Team EMPTY>
  <!ATTLIST Person SSN ID #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST Customer id IDREF #REQUIRED >
  <!ATTLIST Team members IDREFS #REQUIRED>]>
<root>
  <Person SSN='A111' Name='Fred'/>
  <Person SSN='A222' Name='Tom'/>
  <Customer id='A222334444'/>
  <Team members='A222334444 A333445555'/>
</root>

Remarks

If the document has multiple elements with the matching ID, this method returns the first matching element in the document.

Note

The DOM implementation must have information which defines which attributes are of type ID. Although attributes of type ID can be defined in either XSD schemas or DTDs, this version of the product only supports those defined in DTDs. Attributes with the name "ID" are not of type ID unless so defined in the DTD. Implementations where it is unknown whether the attributes are of type ID are expected to return null.