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<BuyerReferences RefType="DepartmentNumber">951</BuyerReferences>
TIA!
"Bryan Dickerson" <txprphan@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> You're a genius!! "Thank You" * 1000 !! That finally gets the log-jam
> cleared. Now, I just need to go back and "get to know" the code a bit
> better. Nonetheless, thanx again!
>
> "Joseph Ferris" <joseph.ferris@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1132170275.374170.68480@g49g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...[color=green]
>> Bryan,
>>
>> You are almost there... ;-) Inline.
>>
>> Bryan Dickerson wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> xTest.LoadXml(sData)
>>> xNSM = New Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xTest.NameTable)
>>> xNSM.AddNamespace("SOAP-ENV", "http://tempuri.org/SOAP-ENV")[/color]
>>
>> Here is your first problem. When you add the namespace, it needs to
>> match the namespace declaration in the XML. It uses it is a lookup, so
>> if both parts don't match, it fails. Change this line in your code to:
>>
>> xNSM.AddNamespace("SOAP-ENV",
>> "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
>>[color=darkred]
>>> xElem =
>>> xTest.GetElementById("//SOAP-ENV:Body/PurchaseOrder/OrderHeader/BuyerOrderNumber")
>>> sVal = xElem.Value[/color]
>>
>> The problem here is that you need to query within the context of the
>> XmlNamespaceManager. To do this, use SelectSingleNode(), like this:
>>
>> Dim nodRetrieve As XmlNode
>> nodRetrieve =
>> xTest.SelectSingleNode("//SOAP-ENV:Body/PurchaseOrder/OrderHeader/BuyerOrderNumber",
>> xNSM)
>>[color=darkred]
>>> But I'm still getting the error: "Object reference not set to an
>>> instance of
>>> an object." on the last line of code that I included here. I'm still
>>> not
>>> getting anything returned from the GetElementById function.
>>>
>>> What now?[/color]
>>
>> So, I made a quick and dirty sample using the snippet of the XML that
>> you made along with a modified version of the source you posted. Mine
>> looks like this:
>>
>> Dim xTest As New XmlDocument
>> Dim sData As String = _
>> "<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
>> xmlns:SOAP-ENV=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"">" & _
>> "<SOAP-ENV:Body>" & _
>> "<PurchaseOrder>" & _
>> "<OrderHeader> " & _
>> "<BuyerOrderNumber>TestPo1</BuyerOrderNumber> " & _
>> "</OrderHeader> " & _
>> "</PurchaseOrder>" & _
>> "</SOAP-ENV:Body>" & _
>> "</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"
>>
>> Dim xNSM As System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager
>> Dim xElem As XmlElement
>> Dim sVal As String
>>
>> xTest.LoadXml(sData)
>> xNSM = New Xml.XmlNamespaceManager(xTest.NameTable)
>> xNSM.AddNamespace("SOAP-ENV",
>> "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
>>
>> Dim nodRetrieve As XmlNode
>> nodRetrieve =
>> xTest.SelectSingleNode("//SOAP-ENV:Body/PurchaseOrder/OrderHeader/BuyerOrderNumber",
>> xNSM)
>> sVal = nodRetrieve.InnerText
>>
>> Let me know if that gets it working for you!
>>
>> Joseph
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]
