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4/8/2010

Contains a node list containing the children nodes.

Script Syntax

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objXMLDOMNodeList = oXMLDOMNode.childNodes;

Remarks

Script Parameters

None.

Script Return Value

Object. A list of children in the current node.

C/C++ Syntax

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HRESULT get_childNodes(
  IXMLDOMNodeList** 
childList
);

Remarks

C/C++ Parameters

childList

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

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK

Value returned if successful.

E_INVALIDARG

Value returned if childListis Null.

Requirements

Header msxml2.h, msxml2.idl
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later

General Remarks

Note that IXMLDOMNodeListis 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 nodeTypeproperty.

Value Description

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE

Returns an IXMLDOMNodeListthat 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 IXMLDOMNodeListwith a length of 0. These node types cannot have children.

NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE

Returns an IXMLDOMNodeListthat contains a list of all child nodes for the IXMLDOMDocumentTypenode. 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.

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