How to check DOMDocument version at run time?

[Leo]

How can I check / find out the DOMDocument version, i.e.,
DOMDocument30, DOMDocument60, ? Thanks.

[Martin Honnen]

Leo wrote:
> How can I check / find out the DOMDocument version, i.e.,
> DOMDocument30, DOMDocument60, ? Thanks.

I don't know of a direct way to find that out, however when you run XSLT
you can access
system-property('msxsl:version')
to find out the MSXML version (e.g. 3 or 6). Here is an example with
JScript that implements a function getVersion which takes an MSXML DOM
document, clones it, loads a stylesheet to output the version and runs
that stylesheet to return the version:

function getVersion(doc) {
var sheet = doc.cloneNode(false);
sheet.loadXML([
'<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">',
' <xsl:output method="text"/>',
' <xsl:template match="/">',
' <xsl:value-of select="system-property(\'msxsl:version\')"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"/>',
' </xsl:template>',
'</xsl:stylesheet>'
].join('\r\n'));
return doc.transformNode(sheet);
}

var doc = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0');

// use with e.g.
alert(getVersion(doc))

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