Hi Terry,

Can you paste valid XML (part)?

MartinJ

>Martin,
>Thanks. But now that I can do that how can I get the other attribute values:
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(resources)
>    (resource identifier="RESOURCE_INTRO" abc:Type="asset";
>     type="webcontent" href="intro.htm")

>Then I moved th pointer with your code:
>oNd=oDocument.selectNodes('*/*[@identifier="'+transform([RESOURCE_INTRO])+'"]')
>I was also able to set it a longhand way:
>oR=oXML.documentelement.childnodes(2) && "resources"
>oN=oR.selectSingleNode("//resources/resource/@identifier[.='RESOURCE_INTRO']")
>And I set the pointer.
>But, I cannot get the other attributes like "abc:Type" or "type" or "href"
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>Note when I point this:
>oResource=oXML.documentelements.childnodes(2).childnodes(0)
>*"resources/resource"
>oResource.attributes(0).nodename returns "identifier"
>oResource.attributes(0).text returns "RESOURCE_INTRO"
>oResource.attributes(1).nodename returns "abc:Type"
>oResource.attributes(1).text returns "asset"
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>So when I arrive at the resource node (above) with the identifier attribute = "RESOURCE_INTRO", my hope is to anticipate the node "resource" and use the DOM attributes of DOM getAttributes(preferred) to retrive the attribute values.
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>The top of the XML has stuff contained in an "organization" tag which would have an attribute value, "RESOURCE_INTRO", that I would like to use to point to a collection of attributes in the "resource" nodes. But, when I set the node with the selectNodes method I cant get a value for basename or parent node - those cannot achieve a reference to point to the attributes.
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>I guess the question is: Once the selectNodes using an attribute value to set the pointer is resolved how can I geet a handle for the node selected, or at least, reference the other attributes in the node?
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>>Hi Terry,
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>>oDocument.selectNodes('*/*[@attribute="'+transform(attribute_value)+'"]')
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>>MartinJ
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>>>Using the object:
>>>ox=CREATEOBJECT("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
>>>oDocument=ox.documentelements
>>>
>>>THe "resource" tagname is a child of oDocument.childnodes(2).
>>>the path would be oDocument/resources/resource
>>>
>>>I have tried:
>>>oDocument.selectSingleNode("resource" ;
>>>child::para[attribute::identifier="RESOURCE_INTRO")
>>>
>>>I need guidance on how to point to a node (tag) based of the value of a specific attribute of the node.