Wow, thanks for that! I will try it as soon as possible (but it looks like
it'll work). I knew it would be simple.

Cheers


Matthew Shaw


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