Yes, thanks. This is what I was trying to do but had the
syntax off slightly. I got it to work this morning -
note you need to use the node not the list to get the
inner node list. Here it is:
levellist = m_xmld.SelectNodes("/start/level")
For Each levelnode In levellist
stufflist = levelnode.SelectNodes("stuff")
For Each stuffnode In stufflist
'process the value
Next
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-----Original Message-----
Wade,
Have you considered using two loops/lists?
One loop/list to process Level, then a second nested
loop/list to processstuff?
m_layerList = m_xmld.SelectNodes("/start/level")
m_stuffList = m_layerList.SelectNodes("stuff")
Hope this helps
Jay
"Wade G" <wa************@chartermi.net> wrote in message
news:20*****************************@phx.gbl... How do I use XmlDocument class to parse an xml file
such as the following - note the key issue is the number of
<stuff> elements is not fixed so if I use m_nodelist =
m_xmld.SelectNodes("/start/level/stuff") to process the
nodes they all run together and I can't separate them
by the <level> that they are at because the number of
times they appear at each level is not fixed:
<start>
<level>
<stuff>
<firstthing>foo</firstthing>
<nextthing>boo</nextthing>
<stuff>
<stuff>
<firstthing>foo</firstthing>
<nextthing>boo</nextthing>
<stuff>
<level>
<level>
<stuff>
<firstthing>blue</firstthing>
<nextthing>goo</nextthing>
</stuff>
</level
</start>
.
