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Trevor
Trevor

Reputation: 16116

How do I access the child node values in my XML document?

I have a XmlString which contains multiple elements with their nodes.

ie

<Element>
    <AccountName>My Account Name</AccountName>
    <FullName>Edward Jones</FullName>
</Element>

I can access the Node names ie AccountName, FullName, but I can't access the values or they return blank. Here is my code.

Doc : IXMLDocument;
begin
  Doc := XMlDoc.LoadXMLData(XmlString);  
  Doc.DOMDocument.getElementsByTagName('Element').length;  // = 11  
  Doc.DOMDocument.getElementsByTagName('Element').item[2].childNodes[0].nodeName;  // = AccountName  
  Doc.DOMDocument.getElementsByTagName('Element').item[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue; 
end;

There are 11 instances of the 'Element' in my XmlString so this checks out, the nodeName = AccountName which is what I expect. But the nodeValue is blank. Is there another way to pull the values? Does anyone know why the node values are blank?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8585

Answers (2)

Remy Lebeau
Remy Lebeau

Reputation: 595377

You are dropping down all the way to the low-level DOM level. In that regard, @MizardX's response is correct - the text is contained in its own distinct child node that you have to access directly. However, since you are using IXMLDocument, you don't need to drop that far down. The IXMLNode interface is higher up and hides those details from you, providing easier access to nodes and their data, eg:

var
  Doc : IXMLDocument; 
  ElementNode, AccountNameNode, FullNameNode : IXMLNode;
  Count: Integer;
  NodeName, NodeText: String;
begin 
  Doc := LoadXMLData(XmlString);   
  ElementNode := Doc.DocumentElement;
  Count := ElementNode.ChildNodes.Count; // = 2

  AccountNameNode := ElementNode.ChildNodes[0];
  NodeName := AccountNameNode.NodeName;
  NodeText := AccountNameNode.Text;

  FullNameNode := ElementNode.ChildNodes[1];
  NodeName := FullNameNode.NodeName;
  NodeText := FullNameNode.Text;
end;

Upvotes: 3

Markus Jarderot
Markus Jarderot

Reputation: 89171

A guess: It looks like standard DOM API, so you could have a Text-node below the element nodes.

Doc.DOMDocument.getElementsByTagName('Element').item[2].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

Upvotes: 2

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