How to access element names with dots and spaces?

10-25-2004

This line works fine for me:
Set objDOMnode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//headline")
strHeadline = objDOMnode.Text

Now I want to get the value from this node:

<nitf>
- <head>
- <docdata>
- <date.issue norm="20020308T153751+0100" />

Why does these line not give the correct results?
Set objDOMnode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//date.issue norm")
strDate= objDOMnode.Text

10-25-2004

Ragnar Heil wrote:
> Now I want to get the value from this node:
>
> <nitf>
> - <head>
> - <docdata>
> - <date.issue norm="20020308T153751+0100" />
>
> Why does these line not give the correct results?
> Set objDOMnode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//date.issue norm")
> strDate= objDOMnode.Text

1. get the element node for "date.issue"
2. get the attribute value for "norm"
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

10-25-2004

In article <> ,
Ragnar Heil <> wrote:

> - <date.issue norm="20020308T153751+0100" />
>
>Why does these line not give the correct results?
> Set objDOMnode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//date.issue norm")

You saeem to be treating this as if it were an element called
"date.issue norm". It isn't, it's an element called "date.issue"
with an attribute called "norm".

Element names can't have spaces in.

-- Richard

10-25-2004

Thank you both for your replies!

I tried two ways to get the value

1) Set objDateNode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//date.issue")
Set DateNodeAttr = objDateNode.Attributes
norm = DateNodeAttr.getNamedItem("norm")
strDate = norm.xml

2) DateNodeAttrLength = DateNodeAttr.length
For i = 1 To DateNodeAttrLength
strDate = DateNodeAttr(i).Value
Next

what is the prefered way?

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10-25-2004

Thank you both for your replies!

Now I tried two ways to get the value of the attribute:

1) Set objDateNode = objDom.selectSingleNode("//date.issue")
Set DateNodeAttr = objDateNode.Attributes
norm = DateNodeAttr.getNamedItem("norm")
strDate = norm.xml

2) DateNodeAttrLength = DateNodeAttr.length
For i = 1 To DateNodeAttrLength
strDate = DateNodeAttr(i).Value
Next

Both ways dont work

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