ASP Classic - XML Dom

Question

I\'ve got the unpleasurable task of working on a Classic ASP site (VBSCRIPT) and need to parse out the following information in a loop.

Answer 1

Switch to using xpath instead and it will be much easier.

Dim nodes
nodes = objXML.selectNodes( "//products" )

Dim images

For each node in nodes
    Response.Write( "<ul>" )
    Response.Write( "<li>Ref: " + node.selectNodes( "@ref" ).Text + "</li>" )
    images = node.selectNodes( "images/image" )
    For each image in images
        Response.Write( "<li>Image: " + image.selectNodes( "@ref" ).Text + "</li>" )
    Next
    Response.Write( "</ul>" )
Next

I'm a JScript ASP coder, like you not done VBScript for an age so the above "might" need a bit of polish (I had to strip out all the ";" at the end of the all the lines, such is the habit of adding them) but should point you in the right direction at least.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Try the following command to get the attribute value specifically for the image node:

node.Attributes.getNamedItem("ref").Text 

Answer 3

Yeah, having to work in classic ASP occasionally transports me back to the Stone age too... I feel your pain!

IIRC, in your second code snippet, you just need to add :

for each node in childNodes
  Response.Write node.nodeName & "  =  " & node.text & "<br />" & vbCrLf
  '***Add the following:
  For Each att in node.Attributes
    Response.Write att.Name & "  =  " & att.text & "<br />" & vbCrLf
  Next
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