childNodes Property (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

Contains a node list containing the children nodes.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNodeList = oXMLDOMNode.childNodes;

HRESULT get_childNodes(
  IXMLDOMNodeList** childList
);

Parameters

Script

None.

C/C++

• childList
  [out, retval] A list of children in the current node.

Return Value

Script

Object. A list of children in the current node.

C/C++

• S_OK
  Value returned if successful.

• E_INVALIDARG
  Value returned if childList is Null.

Remarks

Note that IXMLDOMNodeList is returned even if there are no children of the node. In such a case, the length of the list will be set to 0. For information about valid child node types for each node, see XML DOM Enumerated Constants.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value	Description
NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns an IXMLDOMNodeList that contains a list of all child nodes for the specified node.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT	Returns an IXMLDOMNodeList with a length of 0. These node types cannot have children.
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE	Returns an IXMLDOMNodeList that contains a list of all child nodes for the IXMLDOMDocumentType node. The node list for the document type node can contain entities and notations.

This property (collection) is read-only, and applies to the following objects and interfaces:

DOMDocument, IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMCharacterData, IXMLDOMComment, IXMLDOMDocumentFragment, IXMLDOMDocumentType, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMEntity, IXMLDOMEntityReference, IXMLDOMNode, IXMLDOMNodeList, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, and IXTLRuntime.

Requirements

Header

msxml2.h, msxml2.idl

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Properties
XML DOM Enumerated Constants
nodeType Property