IXMLDOMElement Object (C#)

The IXMLDOMElement object represents the element object. For more information, see the Microsoft XML SDK 3.0 documentation available at the Microsoft Web site.

The IXMLDOMElement object supports the following properties and methods.

Property	Description
attributes	Contains the list of attributes for this node. Read-only.
childNodes	Contains a node list containing the children (for nodes that can have children). Read-only.
firstChild	Contains the first child of this node. Read-only.
lastChild	Contains the last child of this node. Read-only.
nextSibling	Contains the next sibling of this node in the parent's child list. Read-only.
nodeName	Contains the qualified name of the element, attribute, or entity reference, or a fixed string for other node types. Read-only.
nodeType	Specifies the XML DOM node type, which determines valid values and whether the node can have child nodes. Read-only.
nodeTypeString*	Contains the node type in string form. Read-only.
nodeValue	Contains the text associated with the node. Read/write.
ownerDocument	Returns the root of the document that contains this node. Read-only.
parentNode	Contains the parent node (for nodes that can have parents). Read-only.
previousSibling	Contains the left sibling of this node. Read-only.
tagName	Contains the element name (the name that appears within the tag). Read-only.

*Denotes an extension to the W3C DOM.

Method	Description
appendChild	Appends the supplied new child as the last child of this node.
cloneNode	Creates a new node that is an exact clone of this node.
getAttribute	Gets the value of the named attribute.
getAttributeNode	Gets the named attribute node.
getElementsByTagName	Returns a list of all descendant elements that match the supplied name.
hasChildNodes	Returns a Boolean value indicating whether this node has children.
insertBefore	Inserts a child node to the left of the specified node or at the end of the list.
removeAttribute	Removes or replaces the named attribute.
removeAttributeNode	Removes the specified attribute from this element.
removeChild	Removes the specified child node from the list of children and returns it.
replaceChild	Returns the specified old child node and replaces it with the supplied new child node.
setAttribute	Sets the value of the named attribute.
setAttributeNode	Adds or changes the supplied attribute node on this element.

Remarks

Element nodes are among the most common objects in the XML document tree. Element nodes can have attributes associated with them. By definition, attributes are not defined as child nodes of the element and are not considered to be part of the document tree. Accordingly, the IXMLDOMElement object provides methods to make it easier to manage attributes, including methods to associate an attribute with an element, and to retrieve an attribute object and the attribute value by name.

To retrieve the set of all attributes associated with the element, you can also call the getAttribute method, which returns an IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap collection object that contains all the attributes of the element.

Example

The following example creates an IXMLDOMElement object and assigns it to the root element of an XML document.

using Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop;
using interop_msxml;

// Declare variables.
WMSServer Server;
IXMLDOMDocument Playlist;
IXMLDOMElement newRoot;

try {
    // Create a new WMSServer object.
    Server = new WMSServerClass();

    // Create a new playlist object.
    Playlist = Server.CreatePlaylist();

    // Create a new element named root.
    newRoot = Playlist.createElement("root");

    // Assign newRoot as the new document
    // element for the XML document.
    Playlist.documentElement = newRoot;
}
catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO: Handle exceptions.
}

See Also

Reference

IXMLDOMDocument Object (C#)

IXMLDOMNamedNodeMap Object (C#)