previousSibling Property

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

Contains the previous sibling of the node in the parent's child list.

Script Syntax

var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.previousSibling;

Remarks

Script Parameters

None.

Script Return Value

Object. Left sibling of this node.

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_previousSibling(
  IXMLDOMNode** previousSibling
);

Remarks

C/C++ Parameters

  • previousSibling
    [out, retval] Left sibling of this node.

C/C++ Return Values

  • S_OK
    Value returned if successful.
  • S_FALSE
    Value returned when there is no previous sibling.
  • E_INVALIDARG
    Value returned if previousSibling is Null.

Requirements

Header msxml2.h, msxml2.idl
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later

General Remarks

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

Value Description

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.

This property is read-only, and applies to the following objects and interfaces:

IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMCharacterData, IXMLDOMComment, DOMDocument, IXMLDOMDocumentFragment, IXMLDOMDocumentType, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMEntity, IXMLDOMEntityReference, IXMLDOMNode, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, and IXTLRuntime

See Also

Concepts

nodeType Property