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acsooley

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I am using DOM to read a xml file in JSP. I am using getElementsByTagName(). When I do this and want "a" I will get returned "This is a test" But I would like to read body and get all the elements, attributes and text. When I read "body" I get nothing returned. Anyone have any suggestions?
<art>
<test/>
<test1/>
<body>
<new><a href="jkhjk">This is a test</a></new>
</body>
</art>

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If you can limit yourself to IE only you can use the document.all collection. Otherwise you will probably have to recursively traverse the children of the document.body object.

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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you get nothing returned from body because there is no text in the element!


<art>
<test/>
<test1/>
<body>
<new><a href="jkhjk">This is a test</a></new>
</body>
</art>

what you will need to do is create a node set from the body element:

Code: 
Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") 
objXMLDoc.async = False 
objXMLDoc.load("your.xml") 

Set Node = objXMLDoc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("body").selectSingleNode("new/a[@* = 'jkhjk']") 
document.write(Node.text)

untested vbscript - just to give you an idea - good reference site at

hth

simon
 
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You can use innerHTML to do this (supported by most browsers but not W3C compliant) or you can recursively parse the tree. Something like:

document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerHTML

Jon

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