Read/Search XML in ASP?

[Pheddy]

Hi All.

I am having trouble getting the right code to work with XML.. I have this file:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <products xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="PriceList.xsd">
  <group name="" /> 
- <group name="Software">
- <product id="5063441">
  <name>Some Soft</name> 
  <stock>Yes</stock> 
  <weight>0.5</weight> 
  <model>65045809</model> 
  <shortDescription>SomeSoft...</shortDescription> 
  <manufacturerName>Adobe</manufacturerName> 
  <manufacturerURL>http://www.adobe.com/</manufacturerURL> 
  <price>4754545</price> 
  </product>

This file contains 10.000 Products like the one above, and I need to search it trough and extract its elements.

I have tried looking around the web for solutions but it seems that this (I would imagine - easy task) arent that simple..

[Pheddy]

Maybe someone could help me to a working and updated guide somewhere?

Thanks again.

[azrar]

I recommend reading up on XPath so you know how to target the data you want in an XML file.

http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/default.asp

Here's an example of how to implement xpath in ASP:

<%
set xmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.LoadXML xml_data
 
set nodes = xmlDoc.selectNodes("/products/product[@id='5063441']") '- this is xpath
 
For Each n in nodes
 '-- do stuff here
Next
 
set nodes=nothing
set xmlDoc = nothing
%>