IXMLDOMSelection (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

Represents the list of nodes that match a given XSL Pattern or XML Path Language (XPath) expression.

Methods

The following table shows the methods for IXMLDOMSelection.

Method	Description
clone	Produces an exact copy of the current XMLDOMSelection object.
getProperty	Looks up a property by name.
item	Allows random access to individual nodes within a collection. This method has no effect on the current position.
matches	Checks whether the passed-in node is contained in the current collection.
nextNode	Returns the next node in a collection.
peekNode	Gets the next node that nextNode will return without advancing the line position.
removeAll	Removes all the nodes from the current context that match the query.
removeNext	Removes the next node that would be returned by peekNode or nextNode.
reset	Resets the position of the list to its initial state.

Properties

The following table shows the properties for IXMLDOMSelection.

Property	Description
context	Specifies the node (subtree) to apply a selection.
expr	Gets or sets the XML Path Language (XPath) expression string.
length	Indicates the number of items in a collection.

Events

None

Remarks

IXMLDOMSelection is created through the selectNodes method on IXMLDOMDocument2. IXMLDOMSelection is an extension of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM).

This interface inherits all of the methods, properties, and events of IXMLDOMNodeList.

Setting	Version-independent	Version-dependent
ProgID	Msxml2.DOMDocument, Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument	Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0, Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.3.0
CLSID	F6D90F11-9C73-11D3-B32E-00C04F990BB4	f5078f32-c551-11d3-89b9-0000f81fe221

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Objects/Interfaces