Microsoft XML 2.5 SDK


 

previousSibling Property

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Contains the left sibling of this node.

Syntax

objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.previousSibling

Remarks

Object. The property is read-only.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

NODE_ATTRIBUTE, NODE_DOCUMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT Always returns NULL; these node types do not appear as children of any other nodes.
NODE_CDATA_SECTION, NODE_COMMENT, NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE, NODE_ELEMENT, NODE_ENTITY, NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE, NODE_NOTATION, NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, NODE_TEXT Returns the node immediately preceding this node in its parent's child list. Returns NULL if no such node exists.

Example

The following VBScript example creates an XMLDOMNode object and sets it to the previous sibling of the current node:

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

Applies To

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