parentNode Property1
Contains the parent node.
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.parentNode;
Example
The following script example sets a variable ('newNode') to reference the parent node of another IXMLDOMNode
object ('currNode'). It then uses the reference to the new node to display the XML contents of its parent node.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
var currNode;
var newNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(1).childNodes.item(0);
newNode = currNode.parentNode;
WScript.Echo(newNode.xml);
}
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.parentNode
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT get_parentNode(
IXMLDOMNode **parent);
Parameters
parent
[out, retval]
The parent of the given node instance.
C/C++ Return Values
S_FALSE
The value returned if there is no parent.
S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_INVALIDARG
The value returned if the parent
parameter is Null.
Remarks
The property is read-only. All nodes except Document, DocumentFragment, and Attribute nodes can have a parent. However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, the parent is Null.
This value depends on the value of the nodeType
property.
NODE_ATTRIBUTE NODE_DOCUMENT NODE_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT |
Returns Null; these nodes do not have parents. |
NODE_CDATA_SECTION | Returns the element or entity reference containing the CDATA section. |
NODE_COMMENT | Returns the element, entity reference, document type, or document containing the comment. |
NODE_DOCUMENT_TYPE | Returns the document node. |
NODE_ELEMENT | Returns the parent node of the element. If the element is the root node in the tree, the parent is the document node. If the node is the document node, parentNode is Null. |
NODE_ENTITY | Returns the document type node. |
NODE_ENTITY_REFERENCE | Returns the element, attribute, or entity reference containing the entity reference. |
NODE_NOTATION | Returns the document type node. |
NODE_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION | Returns the document, element, document type, or entity reference containing the processing instruction. |
NODE_TEXT | Returns the parent element, attribute, or entity reference. |
Versioning
Implemented in:
MSXML 3.0, MSXML 6.0
Applies to
IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | IXMLDOMDocument-DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText