appendChild Method
Appends a new child node as the last child of the node.
Script Syntax
var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.appendChild(newChild);
Parameters
- newChild
- An object. Address of the new child node to be appended at the end of the list of children belonging to this node.
Return Value
An object. Returns the new child node successfully appended to the list.
Example
The following script example creates a new IXMLDOMNode
object, and then uses the appendChild
method to append it to the document's list of children.
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0"); var root; var newNode; xmlDoc.async = false; xmlDoc.load("books.xml"); if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) { var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError; alert("You have error " + myErr.reason); } else { root = xmlDoc.documentElement; alert(root.xml); newNode = xmlDoc.createNode(1, "VIDEOS", ""); root.appendChild(newNode); alert(root.xml); }
Remarks
This is equivalent to calling insertBefore(newChild, null)
. For more information, see insertBefore Method.
Visual Basic Syntax
Set objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.appendChild(newChild)
Parameters
- newChild
- An object. The address of the new child node to be appended at the end of the list of children belonging to this node.
Return Value
An object. Returns the new child node successfully appended to the list.
Example
The following Microsoft® Visual Basic® example creates a new IXMLDOMNode
object, and then uses the appendChild
method to append it to the document's list of children.
Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50 Dim root As IXMLDOMElement Dim newNode As IXMLDOMNode xmlDoc.async = False xmlDoc.Load ("books.xml") If (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) Then Dim myErr Set myErr = xmlDoc.parseError MsgBox("You have error " & myErr.reason) Else Set root = xmlDoc.documentElement MsgBox root.xml Set newNode = xmlDoc.createNode(NODE_ELEMENT, "VIDEOS", "") root.appendChild newNode MsgBox root.xml End If
Remarks
This is equivalent to calling insertBefore(newChild, null)
. For more information, see insertBefore Method.
C/C++ Syntax
HRESULT appendChild( IXMLDOMNode *newChild, IXMLDOMNode **outNewChild);
Parameters
- newChild [in]
- The address of the new child node to be appended to the end of the list of children of this node.
- outNewChild [out, retval]
- The new child node successfully appended to the list. If Null, no object is created.
C/C++ Return Values
- S_OK
- The value returned if successful.
- E_INVALIDARG
- The value returned if the
newChild
parameter is Null. - E_FAIL
- The value returned if an error occurs.
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Remarks
If the newChild
parameter has an existing parent, the node is automatically removed from that parent before being inserted into its new location.
A node retains its namespace information even when moved. Moving a node does not create a namespace declaration; declarations are added when retrieving the XML source (through the save
method or the xml
property) to ensure that all namespaces are properly declared.
When inserting a node tree under another node that has a different owner document, the ownerDocument
property for each inserted node is changed to match the owner document of its new parent.
When moving a node tree to another document, the content of all entity reference nodes contained therein is updated to conform to the new document. If the new document does not declare an entity that was moved into it, the entity reference will have no children, and the old content is removed. Existing references to nodes under the entity reference are still valid, but the node whose parent previously was the entity reference now has a null parent.
See Also
save Method | xml Property | ownerDocument Property
Applies to: IXMLDOMAttribute | IXMLDOMCDATASection | IXMLDOMCharacterData | IXMLDOMComment | DOMDocument | IXMLDOMDocumentFragment | IXMLDOMDocumentType | IXMLDOMElement | IXMLDOMEntity | IXMLDOMEntityReference | IXMLDOMNode | IXMLDOMNotation | IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction | IXMLDOMText