Question

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?

Answer 1

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;