XMLGetChildCount

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

XML Functions