GetPubId Method (XDATA)

9.8A

The GetPubId method returns the 'pubid' string value for the DOM_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE node type. The 'pubid' string of the DOM_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE is found in the <!DOCTYPE> node data. . The method uses the following format:

[label]

{object}.GetPubId

[GIVING {return}]

Where:

label

Optional. A Program Execution Label.

object

Required. An XDATA object.

return

Optional. A Character String Variable or literal that receives the pubid string value for the DOM_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE node type.

Flags Affected: EOS, OVER, ZERO

Note the following:

The ZERO and OVER flags are set FALSE.
The EOS flag is set TRUE if the pubid string value must be truncated to be stored into the {return} variable.
The pubid data string is found in the DOM_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE follows:

DOM_DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE

<!DOCTYPE name PUBLIC "pubid" "sysid">

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict //EN" "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

See Also: XDATA, XDATA Methods, Method Syntax