NOT looping through elements

[AndyApp]

This is probably a really stupid question and i've probably not thought it through, but that hasn't stopped me in the past!

I'm getting an XML feed from a website using

Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")

I've then got to move into two elements before I get to the one I want, I then want to loop through that element and pull certain things out. This I can do, however, sometimes I need to drop into further elements inside this 3rd element and I DON'T want to loop through them, just pull one out.

Like so:

<element1>
 <element2>
  <element3>
   ...stuff here
   <rogueElement>
    ...just want to drop in here once
   </rogueElement>
  ..loop round element3
  </element3>
 </element2>
</element1>

I might not be writing this clearly but I don't know any other way to move into elements without doing

for each x in y

which causes a loop

 

[tsuji]

The procedure I would guess as you're being deliberately obscur there, is that [1] get the feed, [2] create domdocument object (freethreaded version or not), say oxmldoc (being domdocument or ixmldomelement) to parser it. Then it is this.
[tt] set onode=oxmldoc.selectsinglenode("/element1/element2/element3")[/tt]
Start then from there for whatever you want there-below.

 

[AndyApp]

So, let me just check, whereas before I was doing:

FOR EACH a in b.getElementsByTagName("Thing1")
 ..do stuff
 FOR EACH z IN a.getElementsByTagName("Thing2")
  ...do more stuff
 NEXT
NEXT

I now do:

FOR EACH a in b.getElementsByTagName("Thing1")
 ..do stuff
 SET z = a.selectsinglenode("Thing2")
  ...do more stuff
NEXT

Is that right? And i'm not being obscur(e), what more would you like to know?

 

[tsuji]

If it is your own thing, then check what I posted.