Hey Martin,

Thanks for the reply, it is greatly appreciated.  Just one question though, 
in your code, you read in only my file, how can i read an entire directory 
and then produce the results of:

Fail    file.xml
Fail    file2.xml
Fail    file12.xml
and etc...

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> 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')]")
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/