shawn wrote:

> the links are indeed helpful...
> do u have any info about manipulation of the retrieved nodes and
> writing these back to the XML ?

The DOM (document object model) allows manipulation of nodes so check 
out the properties and methods in the link already posted:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/d051f7c5-e882-42e8-a5b6-d1ce67af275c.asp>

You can use the nodeValue property to change the content of text or 
attrbibute nodes, the MSXML DOM also has a property named 'text' 
allowing to change the text content of element nodes.
Nodes have methods appendChild, removeChild, insertBefore, replaceChild 
to manipulate the content in forms of nodes in the tree model.

As for saving back, the MSXML DOM document has a method named save for 
that allowing you to save to a file or stream so you manipulate the in 
memory DOM tree as outlined above and then call save as needed to 
serialize and save the tree.

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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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