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firstChild Property (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

Contains the first child of the node.

Syntax

var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.firstChild;
HRESULT get_firstChild(  IXMLDOMNode** firstChild);

Parameters

Script

None.

C/C++

  • firstChild
    [out, retval] First child node. If there are no such children, it returns Null.

Return Value

Script

Object. Returns the first child node. If there are no such children, returns Null.

C/C++

  • S_OK
    Value returned if successful.
  • S_FALSE
    Value returned when there are no children.
  • E_INVALIDARG
    Value returned if firstChild is Null.

Remarks

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value

Description

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE

Returns the first child node. If there are no children, returns Null.

NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT

Returns Null. These node types cannot have children.

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

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

Requirements

Header

msxml2.h,
msxml2.idl

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Properties
nodeType Property