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Delphi XE2 Parsing XML with TXMLDocument

Hi
I am trying to parse an XML file using TXMLDocument and Delphi XE2. I am new to XML with Delphi and having much trouble accessing the attribute values from this file:

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml

I have no trouble reaching the first level <Cube> and can return an IXMLNode instance but I cannot get to anything below that ie. second and third level child nodes (both <Cube>) and their attribute values.

Basically I'm doing this, for example, to get the "time" attribute value from the second level <Cube> ...

StartingItemNode := XMLDocument.DocumentElement.ChildNodes['Cube'];
aNode := StartingItemNode;
sDATE := aNode.ChildNodes['Cube'].Attributes['time'];

... line 1 is fine but sDATE in line 3 is always null.

Please could anyone tell me where this is going wrong ?

thanks and best wishes

RR

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Sinisa Vuk

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What can I say ... a thoroughly detailed, fully working solution ... I am genuinely very grateful :-)
I probably would have continued to struggle with TXMLDocument to parse this file and even now, I have still not found a way to do it. I believe that TXMLDocument is a 'wrapper' for MSXML and I applaud your ingenuity in employing MSXML directly. It seems to have methods which are more suitable for addressing the nodes in this case. With TXMLDocument I still have never been able to get beyond the first level of <Cube> in this file.
Once again, many thanks for your time and effort with this.

RR

Sinisa Vuk

Thanks. I'm glad to help you. Yes, this is MS parser - and is fast enough, but depends on external dll (part of windows). But there are more other third part components like this one:
http://www.kluug.net/oxml.php
Look at Performance tab.