nextSibling Property1

Article
10/21/2016

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

Script Syntax

var objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.nextSibling;

Example

The following script example creates an IXMLDOMNode object and sets it to the next sibling of the current node.

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0");
var currNode;
var nextNode;
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
   var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
   WScript.Echo("You have error " + myErr.reason);
} else {
   currNode = xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes.item(0);
   nextNode = currNode.nextSibling;
   WScript.Echo(nextNode.xml);
}

Visual Basic Syntax

Set objXMLDOMNode = oXMLDOMNode.nextSibling

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_nextSibling(
    IXMLDOMNode **nextSibling);

Parameters

nextSibling[out, retval]
Right sibling of this node.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK
Value returned if successful.
S_FALSE
Value returned when there is no next sibling.
E_INVALIDARG
Value returned if the nextSibling parameter is Null.

Remarks

The property is read-only. It returns the right sibling of this node.

This value depends on the value of the nodeType property.

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 following this node in the list of children of this node's parent. If no such node exists, returns Null.

Versioning

Implemented in:

MSXML 3.0 and MSXML 6.0.

Applies to