That did answer my original question, but I have 2 others related to your 
response.
1) If I need to do same select with XSLPatterns what would syntax be
2) Do you know of any documentation that goes into better details on 
creating selection criterias.  All of the ones I have found are very basic 
and don't use more advance syntax of selection.  For example with syntax you 
gave me I could not find some of its definitions describes (specifically 
"contains").  The example I orginally sent was using "value" which I couldn't 
find documentaion on but, some where someone said you use this to ged CDATA 
data.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> 	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>