clone Method1
Clones a copy of the current IXMLDOMSelection, with the same position and context.
JScript Syntax
var NewObjXMLDOMSelection = objXMLDOMSelection.clone();
Example
// Create a DOMDocument2 object and load some XML.
xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0");
xmldoc.loadXML("<root><elem1>Hello</elem1><elem2>World!</elem2></root>");
if (xmldoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmldoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
// Create an XMLDOMSelection object from selected nodes.
xpath = xmldoc.selectNodes("root/elem1");
//`Cache the XPath expression and context.
xpath.expr = "root/elem1";
xpath.context = xmldoc;
// Clone the XMLDOMSelection object.
xpath2 = xpath.clone();
temp1 = xpath.peekNode(); // temp1 == <elem1/>
WScript.Echo("temp1: " + temp1.xml);
temp2 = xpath2.peekNode(); // temp2 == <elem2/>
WScript.Echo("temp2: " + temp2.xml);
// Note that the position and context are maintained.
}
Output
temp1: <elem1>Hello</elem1>
temp2: <elem1>Hello</elem1>
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT clone(IXMLDOMSelection ** ppNode);
Parameters
ppNode[out, retval]
The returned copy of the IXMLDOMSelection object.
Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if the cloning is successful.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the input argument is Null.
Versioning
Implemented in: MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 6.0