Accessing an XML Node's Attribute

Demonstrates how to access an XML node's attribute's value. In this example, we'll access the valud for the ISBN of the first book in the following XML document, which is located at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/bookstore.xml

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<bookstore>
   <book ISBN="10-000000-001">
...
</bookstore>

Download Chilkat XML ActiveX

LOCAL loXml
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lcAttrValue


loXml = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')

lnSuccess = loXml.LoadXmlFile("bookstore.xml")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loXml.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Navigate to the 1st child (i.e. the "book" node)
loXml.FirstChild2()

*  Now access the attribute:

lcAttrValue = loXml.GetAttrValue("ISBN")

? lcAttrValue