Xerox wrote:

> Can I not execute the xpath without a stylesheet?
> 
> I want something like this: totalPrice = XMLDocument.Evaluate
> ("sum(//item/@price)")

MSXML doesn't provide an API for that so you would need to write a 
function of your own e.g. with JScript that builds up a stylesheet to 
get that result:

function evaluateXPathExpression (node, xpathExpression) {
   var xslDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument');
   xslDocument.async = false;
   var loaded = xslDocument.loadXML([
'<xsl:stylesheet ',
'xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">',
'<xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-16" />',
'<xsl:template match="/">',
'<xsl:value-of select="' + xpathExpression + '" />',
'</xsl:template>',
'</xsl:stylesheet>'
].join('\r\n'));
   if (loaded) {
     return node.transformNode(xslDocument);
   }
   else {
     return null
   }
}

var xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument');
xmlDocument.async = false;
xmlDocument.load('test2005030202.xml');

var result = evaluateXPathExpression(xmlDocument, "sum(//item/@price)");

That approach needs refinement to make sure the quotes in the XPath 
expression passed to function do not clash with quotes in the XSL 
stylesheet but I think with MSXML you have no other way to evaluate an 
expression not yielding a node set or single node.


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