'*****************************************************************
'** Script: getxmlelement.vbs
'** Version: 1.0
'** Created: 1/8/2009 10:58PM
'** Author: Adriaan Westra
'** E-mail:
'** Purpose / Comments:
'** Get an element from a xml file
'**
'**
'** Changelog :
'** 1/8/2009 10:58PM : Initial version
'**
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Dim objXML ' object to hold the xml document
Dim objNnode ' xml node object
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'** create the xml object
Set objXML = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0")
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'** Load the xml from file
objXML.load("album.xml")
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'** Set language for finding information to XPath
objXML.setProperty "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"
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'** Get a reference to the node
Set objNode = objXML.selectSingleNode("/album/DSC_2710/title")
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'** Output the requested text
wscript.echo "Title : " & objNode.text
The sample xml file used by the script :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<album>
<title>Bloemen</title>
<DSC_2710>
<alt>Pioenroos</alt>
<title>Pioenroos</title>
</DSC_2710>
<DSC_4777>
<alt>DSC_4777</alt>
<title>DSC_4777</title>
</DSC_4777>
<DSC_4787>
<alt>Vingerhoedskruid</alt>
<title>Vingerhoedskruid</title>
</DSC_4787>
<DSC_4899>
<alt>Lavendel</alt>
<title>Lavendel</title>
</DSC_4899>
<DSC_5003>
<alt>Zonnebloem</alt>
<title>Zonnebloem</title>
</DSC_5003>
</album>
