excel - VBA XML parsing - looping through child nodes -

this first attempt @ parsing xml files using vba, may missing obvious; can print this:

<values>     <value code="1">a</value>     <value code="2">b</value>     <value code="3">c</value> </values> 

using code line:

debug.print variable.selectsinglenode("values").xml 

, values child node of parent variable

but can't figure out how loop through values's children, , print "1a", "2b", "3c" pairs

as far can understand, this question uses first child of root, while goal deeper multiple-leveled structure.

here can see how use msxml6.0 library parse xml particular example. use example, need add reference msxml6.0 in vba project.

i suggest pay particular attention xpath variable '//value' , selectors such .getnameditem("code") --- there many more of these need familiarize in order become fluent in xml parsing. fortunately lot of passes on html parsing useful skill!

in case, have selected value nodes. iterating through them simple doing loop based on length of array of nodes , using .item(i) call.

option explicit sub test()     dim strxml string     strxml = "<values><value code=""1"">a</value><value code=""2"">b</value><value code=""3"">c</value></values>"      dim objxml msxml2.domdocument60     set objxml = new msxml2.domdocument60      if not objxml.loadxml(strxml)  'strxml string xml'         err.raise objxml.parseerror.errorcode, , objxml.parseerror.reason     end if      dim entry_point ixmldomnode     set entry_point = objxml      dim mynodes ixmldomnodelist     dim myelement ixmldomelement     dim mynode ixmldomnode     dim nnode integer     set mynodes = entry_point.selectnodes("//value")     if mynodes.length > 0         nnode = 0 mynodes.length             set mynode = mynodes(nnode) ' first node.             if mynode nothing             else                 debug.print mynode.text                 debug.print mynode.attributes.getnameditem("code").text             end if         next nnode     else         debug.print "no nodes found."     end if  end sub 

here case select values nodes , iterate through children of each values node (assuming values nodes have value children).

option explicit sub test()     dim strxml string     strxml = "<values><value code=""1"">a</value><value code=""2"">b</value><value code=""3"">c</value></values>"      dim objxml msxml2.domdocument60     set objxml = new msxml2.domdocument60      if not objxml.loadxml(strxml)  'strxml string xml'         err.raise objxml.parseerror.errorcode, , objxml.parseerror.reason     end if      dim entry_point ixmldomnode     set entry_point = objxml      dim mynodes ixmldomnodelist     dim mychildnodes ixmldomnodelist     dim myelement ixmldomelement     dim mynode ixmldomnode     dim mychildnode ixmldomnode     dim nnode integer     dim nchildnode integer     set mynodes = entry_point.selectnodes("//values")     if mynodes.length > 0         nnode = 0 mynodes.length - 1             set mynode = mynodes(nnode)             if mynode nothing             else                 set mychildnodes = mynode.childnodes ' children of first node.                 nchildnode = 0 mychildnodes.length - 1                     debug.print mychildnodes(nchildnode).text                     debug.print mychildnodes(nchildnode).attributes.getnameditem("code").text                 next nchildnode             end if         next nnode     else         debug.print "no nodes found."     end if  end sub