Retrieves the total number of child nodes for the specified parent node in an XML document in memory.
Syntax
INT XMLGetChildCount(INT hDoc, INT hNode)
hDoc
Handle of the XML document the parent node belongs to. Returned by XMLCreate or XMLOpen.
hNode
Handle of the parent node. Returned by XMLGetRoot, XMLGetChild, XMLGetParent or XMLNodeFind.
Return Value
Number of child nodes, or -1 on error
Related Functions
XMLClose, XMLCreate, XMLGetAttribute, XMLGetAttributeCount, XMLGetAttributeName, XMLGetAttributeValue, XMLGetChild, XMLGetParent, XMLGetRoot, XMLNodeAddChild, XMLNodeFind, XMLNodeGetName, XMLNodeGetValue, XMLNodeRemove, XMLNodeSetValue, XMLOpen, XMLSave, XMLSetAttribute
Example
Following example creates an XML document from local file "H:\Data\books.xml", then selects the first node that matches XPath expression "/bookstore/book/", then gets the number of children of the node.
INT hDoc, hNode;
INT nCount;
hDoc=XMLOpen("H:\Data\books.xml");
IF hDoc <> -1 THEN
hNode = XMLNodeFind(hDoc,"/bookstore/book/");
IF hDoc <> -1 THEN
nCount=XMLGetChildCount(hDoc,hNode);
End
End
See Also
Published June 2018