parentNode Property

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Contains the parent node (for nodes that can have parents).

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.parentNode

Remarks

Object. The property is read-only. All nodes, except Document, DocumentFragment, and Attribute nodes, can have a parent. However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, the parent is null.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT	Returns null; these nodes do not have parents.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION	Returns the element or entity reference containing the CDATA section.
NODE_COMMENT	Returns the element, entity reference, document type, or document containing the comment.
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE	Returns the document node.
NODE_ELEMENT	Returns the parent node of the element. If the element is the root node in the tree, the parent is the document node. If the node is the document node, parentNode is null.
NODE_ENTITY	Returns the document type node.
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE	Returns the element, attribute, or entity reference containing the entity reference.
NODE_NOTATION	Returns the document type node.
NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	Returns the document, element, document type, or entity reference containing the processing instruction.
NODE_TEXT	Returns the parent element, attribute, or entity reference.

Example

The following VBScript example creates an XMLDOMNode object from another node object's parent, and displays its XML:

Dim xmlDoc
Dim currNode
Dim newNode

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(1).childNodes.item(0)
Set newNode = currNode.parentNode
MsgBox newNode.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