A despert newbie needs help

A despert newbie needs help

• LukeR_

  What does xmlDom.load(Request) return (In general, it's a good idea to check return values of the methods you are calling.) If it returns false, you have to check the parseError property, see Derek's sample above. If it returns true, check whether the root element is really TOKEN. The XPath expression is correct.

  Best regards,
  Anton

  
  

• Rob Mijnen

  Hi,

  You'll need to use the objects in MSXML to run an XPath query on the data.

  var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
  var currNode;
  xmlDoc.async = false;
  xmlDoc.resolveExternals = false;
  xmlDoc.load("books.xml");
  if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode <> 0) {
     var myErr = xmlDoc.parseError;
     alert("You have error " + myErr.reason);
  } else {
     xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
     currNode = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("/TOKEN/TICKET/@GUID");
     alert(currNode.text);
  }

  The other way you could do it is treat the xml as text and use string functions to extract the text. You could use regular expressions to find the text your looking for.

  
  
  

• Yogesh S

  The request is the XML I posted earlier:

  <TOKEN>
  <TICKET GUID="This is the value I need to get"></TICKET>
  <TIMESTAMP>xxxxxxxxxxxx</TIMESTAMP>
  <TOKEN>

  Do I have to call
  xmlDoc.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
  

  
  

• Frank Carr

  I'm using this but still is not working

  Dim xmlDom
  Dim xmlNode

  Set xmlDom = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
  xmlDom.async = false
  xmlDom.load(Request)

  Set xmlNode = xmlDom.SelectSingleNode("/TOKEN/TICKET/@GUID")

  If Not xmlNode Is Nothing Then
  ReadXMLRequest = xmlNode.text
  else
  ReadXMLRequest = ""
  end if

  Set xmlDom = nothing
  

  Are you sure /TOKEN/TICKET/@GUID is the right path

  
  

• Mendip162

  This XML is not well-formed, since TOKEN tags are not closed. When I replaced the last <TOKEN> with </TOKEN>, Derek's script worked just fine.

  
  
• A despert newbie needs help