Hi,
I'm new to programming in vb6 and i am trying to download, parse and save an RSS(XML) file. I am using the wrox XML and VB6 book and it has been a big help so far. I've written most of the code and it works except for 1 thing; I don't get any data from the child nodes, the only data I get is from the parent node.Here is the code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
    getFile

End Sub
Public Sub getFile()

    Dim objDom As MSXML2.DOMDocument
    Set objDom = New MSXML2.DOMDocument
    objDom.async = False
    objDom.Load "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/International.xml"
    objDom.save "c:/test4.xml"
    Dim objElement As IXMLDOMElement
    Dim objNodeList As IXMLDOMNodeList
    Dim sTemp As String
    Dim nIdx As Integer
    Dim sXML As String
    Dim fsoSave As Scripting.FileSystemObject
    Dim tSave As Scripting.TextStream


    With objDom

        sTemp = ""
        Set objElement = .getElementsByTagName("description").Item(0)
        For nIdx = 0 To objElement.childNodes.length - 1
            sTemp = sTemp & objElement.childNodes.Item(nIdx).nodeValue
        Next
        txtdescription = sTemp

        sTemp = ""
        Set objElement = .getElementsByTagName("title").Item(0)
        For nIdx = 0 To objElement.childNodes.length - 1
            sTemp = sTemp & objElement.childNodes.Item(nIdx).nodeValue
        Next
        txttitle = sTemp

    End With 'objDom

    sXML = ""
    sXML = "<np title=|The New York Times|>" & vbCrLf
    sXML = sXML & "<s name=|" & txttitle & "|>" & vbCrLf
    sXML = sXML & "<a hl=|" & txtdescription & "|" & vbCrLf

    Set fsoSave = New FileSystemObject
    Set tSave = fsoSave.OpenTextFile("c:/final.txt", ForWriting, True)
    tSave.Write (sXML)
    tSave.Close

End Sub

This is everything so far. I think the problem is in the With statement. Any help would be appreciated.

thanx
JV

Can you show a portion of the source XML? It's not a very elegant way of creating XML, writing text to a file, why not use the built in methods or XSLT?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Joe,
I did some more reading and found XSLT was the way to go. Thanx for the reply.

John