This is the code which will save my bacon. I do appreciate you expanding on Rick's sugestion for XPATH. You guys are the "Bomb"

Glenn
>Glenn,
>
>I have had some struggles with this recently as well. Rick's suggestion of XPATH is correct, but it can really be painful at first. Try this as a sample:
>
>

>loXml = NEWOBJECT("MSXML2.DomDocument")
>loXml.async = .F.
>IF loXml.load("x.xml")
>    * pulling the price from the 'c' section in your example
>    lcPrice = loXml.documentElement.selectSingleNode("//datafield[@tag='260']/subfield[@code='c']").text
>ENDIF
>

>
>There are extra things you need to check for to make it robust, i.e. that selectSingleNode returned an object, that the object has elements. Where most people get stuck is not realising they can nest the query information.
>
>HTH