TElXMLDOMNode.ParentNode property

TElXMLDOMNode.ParentNode

TElXMLDOMNode See also

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This property gets the parent of this node (for nodes that can have parents).

Declaration

[C#]
TElXMLDOMNode ParentNode;

[VB.NET]
Property ParentNode As TElXMLDOMNode

[Pascal]
property ParentNode : TElXMLDOMNode;

[C++]
TElXMLDOMNode* get_ParentNode();

[PHP]
TElXMLDOMNode get_ParentNode()

[Java]
TElXMLDOMNode getParentNode();

Description

The TElXMLDOMNode that is the parent of the current node. 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 an empty (null/Nothing/nil) reference. For all other nodes, the value returned depends on the NodeType of the node.

This table describes the possible return values for the ParentNode property:

Node type	Value
ntElement	Returns the parent node of the element. If the element is the root node in the tree, the parent is the document node.
ntAttribute	No value is available.
ntText	Returns the parent element, attribute, or entity reference containing the text node.
ntCDataSection	Returns the element or entity reference containing the CDATA section.
ntEntityReference	Returns the element, attribute, or entity reference containing the entity reference.
ntEntity	No value is available.
ntProcessingInstruction	Returns the document, element, document type, or entity reference containing the processing instruction.
ntComment	Returns the element, entity reference, document type, or document containing the comment.
ntDocument	No value is available.
ntDocumentType	Returns the document node.
ntDocumentFragment	No value is available.
ntNotation	No value is available.