brian_harris wrote:

> This is an example of what XML data looks likes:
>  <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
>  <headerDISCREPTABTYP xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes">
>    <DISCREPTABTYP heading="UNKNOWN" description="UNKNOWN EMPLOYEES IN UNIT" >
>      <discrepancytype> <![CDATA[ UNKNOWN  ]]>  </discrepancytype>
>      <empcode> <![CDATA[ 62009  ]]>  </empcode>
>      <startscan> <![CDATA[ 02/10/2006 09:24:16 am  ]]>   </startscan>
>    </DISCREPTABTYP>
>    <DISCREPTABTYP heading="BELONG" description="EMPLOYEES WHO BELONG AND ARE 
> WORKING IN UNIT" >
>      <discrepancytype> <![CDATA[ BELONG  ]]>   </discrepancytype>
>      <empcode> <![CDATA[ 114351  ]]>   </empcode>
>      <startscan> <![CDATA[ 02/06/2006 08:56:01 am  ]]>  </startscan>
>   </DISCREPTABTYP>
>   <DISCREPTABTYP heading="BELONG" description="EMPLOYEES WHO BELONG AND ARE 
> WORKING IN UNIT" >
>     <discrepancytype> <![CDATA[ BELONG  ]]> 
>     </discrepancytype>
>     <empcode> <![CDATA[ 114351  ]]>   </empcode>
>     <startscan> <![CDATA[ 02/07/2006 08:34:21 am  ]]>  </startscan>
>   </DISCREPTABTYP>
>   <DISCREPTABTYP heading="BELONG" description="EMPLOYEES WHO BELONG AND ARE 
> WORKING IN UNIT" >
>     <discrepancytype> <![CDATA[ BELONG  ]]>  </discrepancytype>
>     <empcode> <![CDATA[ 189191  ]]>  </empcode>
>     <startscan> <![CDATA[   ]]>  </startscan>
>   </DISCREPTABTYP>
>    <DISCREPTABTYP heading="FLOATOUT" description="EMPLOYEES FLOAT OUT OF 
> UNIT" >
>      <discrepancytype> <![CDATA[ FLOATOUT  ]]>  </discrepancytype>
>      <empcode> <![CDATA[ 114351  ]]>  </empcode>
>      <startscan> <![CDATA[ 02/10/2006 09:24:16 am  ]]>   </startscan>
>    </DISCREPTABTYP>
>  </headerDISCREPTABTYP>

Here is a sample with JScript using MSXML 3:

var xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0');
xmlDocument.async = false;
if (xmlDocument.load('test2007080802.xml')) {
   xmlDocument.setProperty('SelectionLanguage', 'XPath');
   var nodes = 
xmlDocument.selectNodes('headerDISCREPTABTYP/DISCREPTABTYP[contains(discrepancytype, 
"BELONG") and contains(empcode, "114351")]');
   alert('Found ' + nodes.length + ' node(s).');
}
else {
   alert(xmlDocument.parseError.reason);
}

For your XML input the alert shows that two nodes are being found.

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