Thanks Joe,

I seem to have solved my problem.

Andrew





"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
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> "Andrew" <me@m...> wrote in message 
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> (Please note this is a Visual Basic 6 project)
>>
>> I have an XML project that I need some help with, what I need to achieve 
>> is
>> to get a group of elements from an XML file, then iterate through each
>> element to select only certain attributes. See below for example:
>>
>> -- Example XML File -- 
>>
>> <ROWDATA>
>> <ROW ATTRIBUTE1="AAA" ATTRIBUTE2="BBB" ATTRIBUTE3="CCC" 
>> ATTRIBUTE4="DDD"/>
>> <ROW ATTRIBUTE1="111" ATTRIBUTE2="222" ATTRIBUTE3="333" 
>> ATTRIBUTE4="444"/>
>> </ROWDATA>
>>
>> -- End XML File --
>>
>> 1. I need to build a nodelist of all elements called ROW (of which there 
>> are
>> two)
>> 2. Start a loop for each element
>> 3. Then I need to select ONLY attribute1 and attribute4 from the element
>> 4. Store each attribute (of which there are two) into variables and 
>> process
>> them
>> 5. Continue loop to next element
>>
>> The only way I have been able to achieve this so far it to get a nodelist 
>> of
>> all the ROW elements, then iterate through each attribute and if the
>> attribute matches the one i am after, store it to a variable. The problem
>> with this approach is that is is VERY time consuming to loop through in 
>> this
>> manner when you have many attributes per element.
>>
>> Any help would be great,
>>
>> Please reply via Newsgroup!
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>>
> Andrew
>
> Well you don't need to loop through the attributes, they can be accessed 
> directly from the element via element.getAttribute("ATTRIBUTE1").
> Depending on what you need to do with them afterwards there maybe better 
> ways. For example an XSLT to create a simpler document and maybe partially 
> process the attributes.
>
> -- 
>
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
> http://joe.fawcett.name
>
>
>