Argus Rogue wrote:

> 1.  read each xml file from a directory
> 2. search each xml file (status) for the text fail
> 3.  write to output file in HTML format the status and the file name to
> where you have the following:
>     Status    Name
> -------------------
>     Fail        name of the file

> I found some code to read each file in the directory (part 1) but how do i
> do 2 and 3.

3. is off topic here in comp.text.xml but generally with VBScript or 
JScript you have the Scripting.FileSystemObject to read and write text 
files (and a HTML file is a text file).
So check <URL:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6kxy1a51(VS.85).aspx>

As for 2., you can use MSXML with script to parse XML documents into a 
document object model, then using MSXML 3 and later you have XPath 
support to find nodes. It is currently not clear to me whether you want 
to find an element named 'fail' or the text 'fail' in some element or 
attribute content.
Your example XML document has an element named 'status' with the 
contents 'fail' so assuming you want to look for such elements you could 
do e.g.
   Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0")
   xmlDoc.async = False
   If xmlDoc.load("file.xml") Then
      xmlDoc.setProperty "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"
      Set status = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//status[. = 'fail']")
      If Not status Is Nothing Then
         ' element was found, write that to file
      Else
         ' element was not found
      End If
   Else
      ' XML document could not be parsed
      ' examine xmlDoc.parseError here
   End If

If you want to look for any element with the contents 'fail' then use
   xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//*[. = 'fail']")
if you want to look for elements containing the string 'fail' then use
   xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("//*[contains(., 'fail')]")

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