count xml nodes in ASP

Question posted by: norulzs (Newbie) on March 26th, 2008 05:43 PM

Hi i have the following xml

<heroes>
<character>
....
</character>
<character>
....
</character>
<character>
....
</character>
<character>
....
</character>
</heroes>

i have the follwoing asp code to load in

heroXML = request.form("searchXML")

set xmlDoc = createObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")

xmlDoc.async = False
xmlDoc.loadxml(heroXML)

My question is whats the best way to work out the number of <character> nodes in my lump of xml, this question has been answered in javascript and i have tried using
xmlDoc.childnodes.length but that keeps on returning back 1 even when i have multiple <character> nodes in my xml.

Thanks.

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norulzs

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9 Posts

March 26th, 2008
06:32 PM
#2

Re: count xml nodes in ASP

got it to give me what i wanted by using

dim i, Node
i=0

set xmlNC = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode("heroes")

for each Node in xmlNC.selectNodes("character")
i = i + 1
next

response.write("child nodes="&i)

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