I still see getElementsByTagName on the same DLL as you have, it's actually 
on the DomDocument interface but DomDocument30 implements this so you can 
use it.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
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"Uwe" <uwe.braunholz@h...> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
> for the last few years I use a .dot file including a macro to work
> with some xml-content.
>
> In the code I use the class "DOMDocument30". Since a few weeks I get
> the error that some methods are not available to that object. If I
> check intellisense in my Office Visual Basic Editor I notice that the
> object only gets methods like
>
> *getDeclaredPrefixes
> *getPrefixes
> *getURI
> *getURIFromNode
> *popContext
> ect.
>
> Methods like
> *getElementsByTagName
>
> are not there anymore. I reference the msxml3.dll. Currently installed
> is version 8.90.1101.0 (SP9).
> I could imagine this came with some update, but why did available the
> members change?
>
> I just want to understand the reasons, so I can do something to
> prefend this.
>
> Thank you so much for any help!
>
> Regards,
> Uwe
>