removeChild Method

Removes the specified child node from the list of children and returns it.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.removeChild(oldChild)

Parameters

oldChild
Object. Child node to be removed from the list of children of this node.

Returns

Object. Returns the removed child node.

Example

The following VBScript example creates an XMLDOMNode object (currNode), removes a child node from it, and displays the text of the removed node:
Dim xmlDoc
Dim root

Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("microsoft.xmldom")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.load("c:\books.xml")
Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement
Set currNode = root.childNodes.item(1)
Set oldChild = currNode.removeChild(currNode.childNodes.item(1))
MsgBox oldChild.text

Applies To

[ Object Name ]

Platform Version

Win16:

Win32:

Mac:

Unix:

WinCE:

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XMLDOMAttribute, XMLDOMCDATASection, XMLDOMCharacterData, XMLDOMComment, XMLDOMDocument, XMLDOMDocumentFragment, XMLDOMDocumentType, XMLDOMElement, XMLDOMEntity, XMLDOMEntityReference, XMLDOMNode, XMLDOMNotation, XMLDOMProcessingInstruction, XMLDOMText, XTLRuntime