| Microsoft XML SDK 2.6 - XML Reference |  |
| Microsoft XML SDK 2.6 - XML Reference | |
Contains a node list containing the children (for nodes that can have children).
objXMLDOMNodeList = oXMLDOMNode.childNodes
Object. The collection is read-only. Note that an XMLDOMNodeList object 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 the DOMNodeType enumeration.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.
| NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns an XMLDOMNodeList 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 XMLDOMNodeList with a length of 0. These node types cannot have children. |
| NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Returns an XMLDOMNodeList that contains a list of all child nodes for the XMLDOMDocumentType node. The node list for the document type node can contain entities and notations. |
The following example uses the childNodes collection to return an XMLDOMNodeList object, and then iterates through the collection, displaying the value of each item's xml property:
Dim xmlDoc
Dim root
Dim oNodeList
Dim Item
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set root = xmldoc.documentElement
Set oNodeList = root.childNodes
For Each Item in oNodeList
MsgBox Item.xml
Next
Applies To: XMLDOMAttribute Object | XMLDOMCDATASection Object | XMLDOMCharacterData Object | XMLDOMComment Object | DOMDocument Object | XMLDOMDocumentFragment Object | XMLDOMDocumentType Object | XMLDOMElement Object | XMLDOMEntity Object | XMLDOMEntityReference Object | XMLDOMNode Object | XMLDOMNotation Object | XMLDOMProcessingInstruction Object | XMLDOMText Object | XTLRuntime Object