previousSibling Property (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

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

Syntax

var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.previousSibling;
HRESULT get_previousSibling(
  IXMLDOMNode** previousSibling
);

Parameters

Script

None.

C/C++

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

Return Value

Script

Object. Left sibling of this node.

C/C++

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

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

Requirements

Header

msxml2.h,
msxml2.idl

See Also

Reference

XML DOM Properties
nodeType Property