The name property contains the name of the document type; i.e., the name that immediately follows the 'DOCTYPE' keyword.

In the example we use the 'staff.xml' file which has the following DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE staff SYSTEM "staff.dtd">

The code then returns the name property of the DocumentType.

Code (JavaScript):
xml_doc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xml_doc.async = false;
xml_doc.load("staff.xml");

d_type = xml_doc.doctype;
document.write(d_type.name);

Output:
staff