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

 

Hey,

I'm working on a project and need to parse some xml code using vb6.

 

The xml file as around 50 "sections" in it that I need to examine and pull out certain info...

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

- <ArrayOfCompetition xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/Web.Controllers">

- <Competition>

  <ChiefJudge />

  <CompetitionGuid>72a399f8-480c-4743-9c14-4357a77582ce</CompetitionGuid>

  <CompetitionName />

  <Date>2014-06-26T09:00:00</Date>

  <EventName>Southwest Corps Connection</EventName>

  <GroupTypeID>4</GroupTypeID>

  <IsCurrentSeason>true</IsCurrentSeason>

  <Location>Mesa AZ</Location>

  <OrgCompetitionID>0</OrgCompetitionID>

  <PerformancesUrl>https://api.competitionsuite.com/2013-02/Performances/?c=72a399f8-480c-4743-9c14-4357a77582ce</PerformancesUrl>

  <RecapReleased>false</RecapReleased>

  <RecapUrl>http://recaps.competitionsuite.com/72a399f8-480c-4743-9c14-4357a77582ce.htm</RecapUrl>

  <SeasonGuid>348fac28-d10c-47e5-8753-802512df9904</SeasonGuid>

  <SeasonName>2014</SeasonName>

  </Competition>

..........
</ArrayOfCompetition>

 

 

What I need to do is parse all of this out into some combo boxes. Not sure where to start...

Thoughts?

Thanks. Tom