Thanks Viv!

That's the syntax I was looking for.

>>>>>Shouldn't that be:

>>>>>oxml.save("c:\program files\mist 2006\reports\mistrep.exe.config")

>>>>
>>>>Thanks! Good catch oh ye of the eagle eye!
>>>
>>>I get plenty of practice from looking at my own code! :-{
>>>Looks like it should work apart from that...
>>>Best,
>>>Viv
>>
>>Hi Viv,
>>
>>in this case I was mixing my code with code I got off the net. I tend to use "m.lo" and the code off the net used just plain "o".
>>
>>Do you see any way that I can try to get a particular node based on it's name, rather than using the hardcoded numbers I've used? I'm worried about the developer adding more stuff into the config file which might then break this code.
>
>Safer to use the element and attribute names. e.g:

>oMySettingsNode = oXML.documentElement.selectSingleNode("//MistRep.My.MySettings")
>MistReportFolderNode = oMySettingsNode.selectSingleNode("//*[@name='MistReportFolder']/value")
>MistReportFolderNode.Text = "Some newvalue"
>* or just:
>oMySettingsNode.selectSingleNode("//*[@name='MistReportFolder']/value").Text="Some new value"

>HTH,
>Viv