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hasChildNodes Method

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Returns True if this node has children.

boolValue = oXMLDOMNode.hasChildNodes();

HRESULT hasChildNodes(
  VARIANT_BOOL* hasChild
);

General Remarks

This method offers a fast way to determine whether a node has children. It always returns False for nodes that, by definition, cannot have children: the IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMComment, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, and IXMLDOMText nodes.

This method applies to the following objects and interfaces:

IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMComment, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, IXMLDOMAttribute, IXMLDOMCDATASection, IXMLDOMCharacterData, IXMLDOMComment, DOMDocument, IXMLDOMDocumentFragment, IXMLDOMDocumentType, IXMLDOMElement, IXMLDOMEntity, IXMLDOMEntityReference, IXMLDOMNode, IXMLDOMNotation, IXMLDOMProcessingInstruction, IXMLDOMText, and IXTLRuntime.

 Last updated on Saturday, April 10, 2004

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