XML DOMNodeList

The XML DOM NodeList object is a collection of Nodes. Its methods allow us to iterate through all the children Nodes of a Node. You can use the For Each ... Next loop for this iteration. However, you can also choose to iterate through these Nodes using its method of nextNode().

This object is returned in the property, such as childNodes, or methods such as getElementsByTagName() and selectNodes().

Example

The following example uses the childNodes property of the DOMDocument to return the children Nodes of the root element of the DOMDocument. (For more details see the childNodes property, which also shows an example of how to iterate through the XMLDOMNodeList collection.)

Dim objDOMDocument As DOMDocument
Dim objXMLDOMNodeList As IXMLDOMNodeList
Set objDOMDocument = New DOMDocument
objDOMDocument.async = False
objDOMDocument.Load "http://localhost/xmlcode/people2.dtd"
Set objXMLDOMNodeList = objDOMDocument.documentElement.childNodes

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