Matthew Shaw wrote:

> I have several command buttons, each with their own menu (popup). I use an
> XML file to set the captions of the command buttons and their corresponding
> menus. My XML file is arranged like this:
> 
> <places>
>     <section>
>         <!-- Command button properties-->
>         <name></name>
>         <description</description>
> 
>         <!-- Menu properties -->
>         <menu></menu>
>         <menu></menu>
>     </section>
>     <!-- ...and more <sections> -->
> </places>
> 
> Each button has it's own <section>. I loop through the nodes (for each)
> 
> Basically, I want my program to be able to determine what to do when the
> user clicks a menu item based on keywords associated with each menu. Thus I
> am thinking maybe each <menu> item has an attribute (correct name?)
> associated with it, which is the keyword, so each menu item would be like
> <menu function="openfile">.
> 
> My program can provide the command button's index, which is what number
> <section> it got its contents from (ie. the first command button's caption
> and corresponding menu would have been from the first <section> tree), and I
> can supply the menu's index, (ie. if the user clicks the second item on the
> popup menu then we know that it was from the first <menu> item of a
> particular <section>.
> 
> I am thinking that I loop through a certain number of <section> items
> according to the command button number pressed (ie. I press the first
> command button so it goes to the first <section> tree). Then, under that
> <section> tree, it reads the n'th <place> item's attribute - where n is the
> number of the menu clicked (ie. if I click the third menu item, then the
> third <place> attribute is read).
> 
> I hope I explained myself okay, I'm new to XML and it is kind of hard to
> find VB6 XML info. Basically, the end question is, how to do I go to one
> specific <section> tree (number is determined by the command button number
> pressed) and then read a specific <place> attribute (number is determined by
> menu item pressed).

MSXML 3 and 4 support XPath and XPath supports indexing a node set e.g.
   //section[3]//menu[4]
where indices start from 1 so the above would select the third <section> 
element and then the fourth <menu> in that.
The method to call is xmlDocument.selectSingleNode, the argument is the 
XPath as a string e.g.
   Set menu = xmlDocument.selectSingleNode("//section[3]//menu[4]")

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