appendChild Method

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Appends newChild as the last child of this node.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.appendChild(newChild)

Parameters

newChild

Object. Address of the new child node to be appended at the end of the list of children of this node.

Returns

Object. Returns the new child node successfully appended to the list.

Remarks

Note that this is equivalent to calling insertBefore(newChild, null). For complete information, see the documentation for insertBefore.

Example

The following VBScript example creates a new XMLDOMNode object, then uses the appendChild method to append it to the document's list of children:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim root
Dim newNode

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
MsgBox root.xml

Set newNode = xmlDoc.createNode (1, "VIDEOS", "")
root.appendChild(newNode)
MsgBox root.xml

Applies To

[ Object Name ] Platform Version Win16: Win32: Mac: Unix: WinCE: Version data is listed when the mouse hovers over a link, or the link has focus.	XMLDOMAttribute, XMLDOMCDATASection, XMLDOMCharacterData, XMLDOMComment, XMLDOMDocument, XMLDOMDocumentFragment, XMLDOMDocumentType, XMLDOMElement, XMLDOMEntity, XMLDOMEntityReference, XMLDOMNode, XMLDOMNotation, XMLDOMProcessingInstruction, XMLDOMText, XTLRuntime