Re: MSHTML DocType object? Can't get the string

Which regular expressions would that be? This is part of the problem, I need to capture the entire source code of a page programmatically. 

This is easy to do for the HTML tag, which would be simply

Dim Source as String = DocumentObject.documentElement.outerHTML
However, this doesn't include the DocType declaration if one is present on the page, which is fairly critical during html validation.
If there is a regular expression for this, that would be great. I don't know what it is though.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: MSHTML DocType object? Can't get the string



Wouldn't be more simple and sure to use regular expressions for this?

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:46 AM
Subject: MSHTML DocType object? Can't get the string
Does anyone know how to get the string value out of the Document.DocType object using VB?
I asumed that a string value would be returned when this was called, but no luck. For instance,
' Asume that DocumentObject is the current Document object for the given web page. 

Dim DocType as String = DocumentObject.DocType
This looks a little different in VB6, but you get the idea. Well, it doesn't work. There is no string since an object of type DocumentType is being returned.
However, there doesn't appear to be any way of creating a variable of type DocumentType in VB, which is presumably being returned by DocumentObject.DocType.
I just need to get the actual string for the DocType tag itself from the document object using VB. 

Any ideas how I might be able to do this?

Thanks a million,

Bryan Garaventa


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