Hi Tom, 

In VB6 you have the XML DOM objects. Include a reference to “Microsoft XML v4.0” in your project to use it.

There are three basic operations you’ll need to get data out from the XML document:

1.       Create an XML Document object

  Dim objXML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument

2.       Load your XML document into the object, passing its location on disk or URL

objXML.Async = false

objXML.Load( “c:\users\BillGates\Documents\competition.xml” )

3.       Select the nodes you want to use with XPath and the method SelectNodes

Dim NodeList as XMLDOMNodeList

Set NodeList = objXML.SelectNodes( “/ArrayOfCompetition/Competition/EventName” )

(Note to readers using better programming languages: Did you notice that there is no need to bother with namespace handling? Oh! Those old good times :D ).

This will give you a collection of all the EventName elements in every Competition element in your document.

The you can loop every resulting node with a For .. in … do  loop in VB, like this:

   Dim xNode As MSXML.IXMLDOMNode

   For Each xNode In NodeList

                Print xNode.text

Is a good idea to add error handling. Take a look to this article from Microsoft to learn how to deal with XML, including error handling: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468547.aspx

The key to be proficient with XML is XPath. Somebody else can recommend you a “Good” resource for learning it (Sorry me not… I learned XPath in w3schools :D ).

Hope this helps,

-          Bill

De: Tom Martin [mailto:tomdmartin@g...]
Enviado el: viernes, 13 de junio de 2014 1:06 p. m.
Para: xml-dev@l...
Asunto: need help / insight on parsing some xml with vb6