Search XML File with XMLDOM

[Byourself]

Hi,

I have a question. I couldn't find documentation about it on the net so I hope the pro's here will help.

Well, I have an xml which looks like:
<MyXMLTree>
<FirstName>
<width>200px</width>
<DefValue>Your name here</DefValue>
</FirstName>
</MyXMLTree>

Anyway, I'd like to know how can I get only the width and DefValue values which are under FirstName only and not from a different parent node.

I have to do it with XMLDOM because I'm programming it with the old ASP...

Thanks a lot!
Shay ---------------
&quot;Young and hostile, but not stupid&quot; (Blink 182)

 

[Tarwn]

Well you could specify a loop that would loop for each object in a list generated by element.selectNodes(&quot;FirstName&quot and you would have access to the children of all the Firstname nodes. I would post code by I haven't done XMLDOM in ASP in a few months and might get your more lost than you already were
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[Byourself]

Hmmmm... Could you add a short sample code?

XMLDOM is really bad documented and I can't find nothing about it...

Thanks ---------------
&quot;Young and hostile, but not stupid&quot; (Blink 182)

 

[kim1234]

Here's a short example of at least one way to do it:

To get <width> and <DefValue> of <FirstName>
Create the objects which point to the correct nodes in your tree (as shown above), and then read out the &quot;text&quot; property to get the value:

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Set objRoot     = objDOM.documentElement
Set objWidth    = objRoot.getElementsByTagName("FirstName/width")
Set objDefValue = objRoot.getElementsByTagName("FirstName/DefValue")

strWidth = objWidth(0).text
strDefValue = objDefValue(0).text
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If you have multiple <FirstName> elements in your document, or if you have multiple <width> and/or <DefValue> elements in <FirstName>, that puts a different spin on it....

Here's an online reference for XMLDOM -

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_intro.html

Hope this helps.
Ciao, K----------------
&quot;If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code&quot; - FedEx

 

[kim1234]

Accidentally omitted 2 lines in above example....

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Set objDOM = CreateObject(&quot;Microsoft.XMLDOM&quot
objDOM.Load(&quot;path/file.xml&quot
Set objRoot = objDOM.documentElement
Set objWidth = objRoot.getElementsByTagName(&quot;FirstName/width&quot
Set objDefValue = objRoot.getElementsByTagName(&quot;FirstName/DefValue&quot

strWidth = objWidth(0).text
strDefValue = objDefValue(0).text
---------- Hope this helps.
Ciao, K----------------
&quot;If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code&quot; - FedEx