firstChild Property
Contains the first child of the node.
var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.firstChild;
Example
The following example sets currNode to the first child node of the top-level node.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0"); var currNode; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.firstChild; WScript.Echo(currNode.xml); }
Set objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.firstChild
HRESULT get_firstChild(
IXMLDOMNode **firstChild);
Parameters
firstChild[out, retval]
The first child node. If there are no such children, it returns Null.
C/C++ Return Values
S_OK
The value returned if successful.
S_FALSE
The value returned when there are no children.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the firstChild parameter is Null.
The property is read-only. Returns the first child node. If there are no such children, returns Null.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.
| 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. |
Implemented in:
MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0
IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText