firstChild Property

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Contains the first child of this node.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.firstChild

Remarks

Object. 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.

Example

The following example sets currNode to the first child node of the top-level node:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim currNode

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