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    copied!<p>I've got the unpleasurable task of working on a Classic ASP site (VBSCRIPT) and need to parse out the following information in a loop.</p> <pre><code>&lt;xml&gt; &lt;product ref="xxx"&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;images&gt; &lt;image ref="JCCCCCC" /&gt; &lt;image ref="JCCCCCD" /&gt; &lt;/images&gt; &lt;/product&gt; &lt;product ref="xxx"&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;xxx/&gt; &lt;images&gt; &lt;image ref="JCCCCCC" /&gt; &lt;image ref="JCCCCCD" /&gt; &lt;/images&gt; &lt;/product&gt; &lt;/xml&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'm trying to grab the product refs and then the images (4th main node down)</p> <p>I've been faffing with this for a while now and am suffering brain block after not using ASP for over 2 years.</p> <pre><code>&lt;% Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") Set objLst = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") Set objHdl = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") objXML.async = False objXML.Load (Server.MapPath("\") &amp; "\xmlupdate\product.xml") If objXML.parseError.errorCode &lt;&gt; 0 Then 'handle the error End If Set objLst = objXML.getElementsByTagName("Product") SizeofObject = objLst.length-1 response.Write(SizeofObject&amp;"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;") For i = 0 To (SizeofObject-1) Set objHnd = objLst.item(i) Response.Write(objHdl.childNodes(0).text) Next %&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any help would be great before I lose my mind to ASP</p> <p>--- Additional ---</p> <p>Using this provides a full output as I'd hope its the node attributes I cant seem to grab.</p> <pre><code>&lt;% Set objLst = objXML.getElementsByTagName("Product") SizeofObject = objLst.length-1 response.Write(SizeofObject&amp;"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;") For each elem in objLst set childNodes = elem.childNodes for each node in childNodes Response.Write node.nodeName &amp; " = " &amp; node.text &amp; "&lt;br /&gt;" &amp; vbCrLf next Response.Write "&lt;hr&gt;" &amp; vbCrLf Next %&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <h2>Final Code To Dump the XML (Cerebrus Below)</h2> <pre><code>&lt;% Set objLst = objXML.getElementsByTagName("Product") SizeofObject = objLst.length-1 response.Write(SizeofObject&amp;"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;") For each elem in objLst set childNodes = elem.childNodes for each node in childNodes Response.Write node.nodeName &amp; " = " &amp; node.text &amp; "&lt;br /&gt;" &amp; vbCrLf If lcase(node.nodeName)="images" then Response.Write("&lt;B&gt;Images Hit&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/br&gt;") set xattchildnodes = node.childNodes For Each attchildnodes in xattchildnodes For Each att in attchildnodes.Attributes Response.Write att.Name &amp; " = " &amp; att.text &amp; "&lt;br /&gt;" &amp; vbCrLf Next Next End If next Response.Write "&lt;hr&gt;" &amp; vbCrLf Next %&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <h2>Working XPATH Version (modified from Pete Duncanson Below)</h2> <pre><code>&lt;% Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") objXML.Load (Server.MapPath("\") &amp; "\Product.xml") 'etc' Dim nodes set nodes = objXML.selectNodes("//xml/Product") Dim images For each node in nodes Response.Write("&lt;ul&gt;") Response.Write("&lt;li&gt;Ref: " &amp; node.getAttribute("ref") &amp; "&lt;/li&gt;") Set images = node.selectNodes("Images/Image") For each image in images Response.Write( "&lt;li&gt;Image:"&amp; image.getAttribute("ref") &amp;"&lt;/li&gt;" ) Next Response.Write( "&lt;/ul&gt;" ) Next %&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <p>Anthony Jones points out that its better to be specific so you may want to change</p> <pre><code>Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") </code></pre> <p>to</p> <pre><code>Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0") </code></pre> <p>Which still works with the final code.</p>
 

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