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Thanks.<br />
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I'm just curious why If Node doesn't work. &nbsp;When I try that I get a &quot;Object doesn't support method&quot; error. &nbsp;I'm thinking maybe a node doesn't support a conversion to boolean?
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Thanks.

I'm just curious why If Node doesn't work.  When I try that I get a "Object doesn't support method" error.  I'm thinking maybe a node doesn't support a conversion to boolean?

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I'm using MSXML4.0 and have a question about testing the return value of some functions. &nbsp;I'm using XPath as my selection langauges so I frequently attempt to retrieve nodes using:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Dim Node As IXMLDOMNode<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; node = XMLDoc.selectSingleNode(&quot;/<wbr />foo/bar&quot;)<br />
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What I would like to do is test the value of the node to ensure it is valid before calling methods on it. &nbsp;The documentation for selectSingleNode says the return value is Nothing if no node is found to match the XPath expression. &nbsp;I tried the following:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; If Node = Nothing Then<br />
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but I got the following error:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Compiler Error<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Invalid Use of Object<br />
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How can I test the validity of my object in this case?
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I'm using MSXML4.0 and have a question about testing the return value of some functions.  I'm using XPath as my selection langauges so I frequently attempt to retrieve nodes using:

    Dim Node As IXMLDOMNode

    node = XMLDoc.selectSingleNode("/foo/bar")

What I would like to do is test the value of the node to ensure it is valid before calling methods on it.  The documentation for selectSingleNode says the return value is Nothing if no node is found to match the XPath expression.  I tried the following:

    If Node = Nothing Then

but I got the following error:

    Compiler Error
    Invalid Use of Object

How can I test the validity of my object in this case?

Testing return results in MSXML4.0

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