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Hello there,

I don't know how to word this correctly, but i have a couple XML files that i need to extract certain information from.
The files are already on my computer, so i won't be fetching it off the web anymore if that helps any.

I mainly want to extract the information within the nodes, or everything within/under a parent-node.

Here is an example of what's within the XML file:

<?xml version ="1.0" encoding="uscii"?>

<context id="TwelveMonthEnd">
   <entity>
       <number>152360</number>
    </entity>
    <Frame>
        <Start>1985-01-01</Start>
        <End>1986-01-02</End>
    </Frame>
</context>

Then it repeats this for an X amount of times then stops.

The outcome i would like to achieve looks like this:

TwelveMonthEnd | 152360 | 1985-01-01 | 1986-01-02

The pipes don't need to be that wide from the information.

I'm new to XML i've been trying to self teach.
I was able to do some of this, but then after awhile the numbers within the "<Frame>" region started to repeat and thats why i need help.

Thank you.

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Member Avatar for hielo

>>I was able to do some of this
Using what exactly VBSCRIPT, PHP, XSL? Post what you have thus far.

Member Avatar for Chimunda

So far i've been using HTML and JS.
I found tutorials at W3 schools, and i just went off that.

here's an example of the code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="loadxmldoc.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("file:///E:/TEST/testrun/test_1.xml");
 
w=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("context");
y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('start');
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('end');

for (i=10;i<w.length;i++)
{
att=w.item(i).attributes.getNamedItem("id");
document.write(att.value);
document.write(" | ");
document.write(y[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write(" | ");
document.write(x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<br />");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

My output looks something like this:

TwelveMonthEnd | 1985-01-01 | 1986-01-02.

It starts repeating dates after a short period though, that's the problem.

Member Avatar for hielo

I was not able to locate loadxmldoc.js, but try:

<script type="text/javascript">
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("file:///E:/TEST/testrun/test_1.xml");
 
w=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("context");
//y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('start');
//x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('end');

for (var i=10;i<w.length;i++)
{
	var y=w[i].getElementsByTagName('start')[0];
	var x=w[i].getElementsByTagName('end')[0];
	var att=w.item(i).attributes.getNamedItem("id");
	document.write(att.value);
	document.write(" | ");
	//document.write(y[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
	document.write(y.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
	document.write(" | ");
	//document.write(x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
	document.write(x.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
	document.write("<br />");
}
</script>
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