XML Using MS XML DOM

[test001only]

Hi,

I am using MS XML DOM ActiveX to parse through XML file I have. I want to retrieve comments from the XML document and I tried using "comment()" function along with the xPath String.

It seems to be not working. Actually when I try to retrieve all the elements from an XML document, it does not get the comments at all. Any way out of this.

Thanks...

[candidus]

QUOTE (test001only @ Apr 24 2009, 09:21 AM)

Actually when I try to retrieve all the elements from an XML document, it does not get the comments at all.

Hallo,

I didn't have to work with XPath for a long time but here are some hints:

Comment aren't XML elements but XML nodes so try to get all nodes of the document.

There is a very nice tutorial about XPath that helped me a lot. You can find it under

http://www.w3schools.com/Xpath/ .

You can also take a look into a (MS)XML forum, perhaps there are special issues

regarding XPath and MSXML.

[mje]

As candius pointed out, you're looking for nodes, not elements. Sticking with DOM methods, if you iterate over each node and compare its nodeType, you're looking for ones of the NODE_COMMENT (8) variety.

If you want more than hints, show us what you have so we have a starting point.