Re: Viewing and Parsing XML files

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Hi =?Utf-8?B?SGFmZWV6IEVzbWFpbA==?=,

The Confirm Conversion on Open really did the trick....
I'm thinking there must be some tools out there (VB classes, methods) that
would greatly help me parse through this XML document and extract the items
I'm looking for....
But in the mean time, I suppose I can treat the XML document as a text file
(what a shame!) and do try it out that way.

The problem with any XML file is that the structure is arbitrary. So there's
really nothing like a "viewer" that can show you something for editing (as you
could an Excel work***, for example).

For "classic VB" (including VBA) you can set a reference to an MSXML library
(if nothing else, one is distributed with Office 2003) to get XML parsing
classes and methods. The .NET applications have those built-in. The Microsoft
Visual Studio "Express" editions - VB.NET Express, for example - are free
downloads.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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