XPathNavigator.MoveToFirstChild Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.XPath

Assembly:

System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XPathNavigator.cs

When overridden in a derived class, moves the XPathNavigator to the first child node of the current node.

public:
 abstract bool MoveToFirstChild();

public abstract bool MoveToFirstChild ();

abstract member MoveToFirstChild : unit -> bool

Public MustOverride Function MoveToFirstChild () As Boolean

Returns

Boolean

true if the XPathNavigator is successful moving to the first child node of the current node; otherwise, false. If false, the position of the XPathNavigator is unchanged.

Examples

For an example of the MoveToFirstChild method, see the Clone method.

Remarks

Root and Element are the only two XPathNodeType values that can have children. This property always returns false for all other XPathNodeType node types.

See also

• XPathNodeType
• MoveToNext()
• MoveToParent()
• HasChildren