XML Search For Node

[buymeapc]

Hi all,

I've been searching the forums and I can't quite find what I need. I have XML documents with several levels of child nodes. The child nodes are not all the same within the XML docs and the paths can change. I know which node I want the data from, but I can't quite figure out how to browse through the XML document searching for one node that could be anywhere in the tree.

How could I find a random node in an XML document and retrieve its data?

Thanks!

[PsaltyDS]

Search for posts using the _XMLDomWrapper.au3 UDF from eltorro. It uses XPath syntax.

[buymeapc]

I had been been basing my searches off of that. Great tool, but couldn't quite figure out how to use it for my specific need. Every function required the node path and that was the part I didn't have, sadly. I ended up reading the entire xml into a variable and using the StringBetween function to find the (random) node in question. Not as elegant as I would have liked, but it gets the job done.

Thanks for the help!

[PsaltyDS]

If you can post an example XML it might be possible to create a demo with it.

[4ggr35510n]

Dunno is it what you need, but it's the best XPath tutorial I've ever found:

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html