Accessing the DOM

Traversing the node tree

One very common way to extract XML elements from an XML document is to traverse the node three and extract the text value of each elements. A small snippet of programming code like a VBScript for/each construct can be written to demonstrate this.

The following VBScript code traverses an XML node tree, and displays the XML elements in the browser:

set xmlDoc=CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlDoc.async="false"
xmlDoc.load("note.xml")

for each x in xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes
  document.write(x.nodename)
  document.write(": ")
  document.write(x.text)
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