Have you set:

pobjXMLDOC.setAttribute "SelectionLanguage", "XPath"

on the document before trying the selectNodes()?

I believe that MSXML4 defaults to the XPattern syntax making the XPath your are using invalid
(doesn't support axes).

Chris.

"rvj" <md@r...> wrote in message news:Orwjo9$dEHA.4048@T......
Corrected Version :

I want to select nodes from an XML file (RDF) but I dont understand the
syntax
for including the containing elements into the node set

For example, if I use

       var nodes = xmldoc.selectNodes("//RDF:Description[@role:area='US']");

 I get valid results for the US apart from the fact I havent generated any
containing elements especially the root node so I assume I need something
like

      var nodes =
xmldoc.selectNodes("//RDF:Description[@role:area='US']/ancestor-or-self::*")
;

or

       var nodes =
xmldoc.selectNodes("//ancestor-or-self::RDF:Description[@role:area='US']");

and then simply dump the xml using

    for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++ )
     {
         Response.write(nodes.nextNode().xml)
     }

but all my attempts generate token errors in my asp page

Expected token 'eof' found ':'.

Any ideas?

********
input file
********
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<RDF:RDF xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:role="http://www.rolemodels.net/rdf#">
  <RDF:Seq about="search:providers">
    <RDF:li>
       <RDF:Description  role:area="US" role:body="Excute" />
       <RDF:Description  role:area="US"  role:body="Yahoo Corp"  />
       <RDF:Description  role:area="UK"  role:body="Yahoo Limited"    />
    </RDF:li>
  </RDF:Seq>
</RDF:RDF>

************
required output
*************

<RDF:RDF xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
         xmlns:role="http://www.rolemodels.net/rdf#">
  <RDF:Seq about="search:providers">
    <RDF:li>
       <RDF:Description  role:area="US" role:body="Excute" />
       <RDF:Description  role:area="US"  role:body="Yahoo Corp"  />
     </RDF:li>
  </RDF:Seq>
</RDF:RDF>








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