Question

I have cut and paste this example from http://devguru.org/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/node_selectSingleNode.html

and I can’t get it to work.

I keep getting object errors like this:

Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01A8)
Object required

This is the code and xml file I am using

    <%
    option explicit

    Dim objXMLDoc

    Set objXMLDoc = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
    objXMLDoc.async = False
    objXMLDoc.load(Server.MapPath("vocabulary.xml"))

    Dim Node

Set Node = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode("label")
Response.write Node.text

%>

xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <labels>
        <label>Some label</label>
    </labels>

Answer 1

The error mentioned is probably at the level of the last line. Assuming all other calls to the XMLDOM object worked smoothly, selectSingleNode would return null, since “label” as a path would not be found.

Try with

Set Node = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode("labels/label")

instead. Alternatively, and this is a good practice with this type of DOM logic, you could test for successful return from selectSingleNode

Set Node = objXMLDoc.documentElement.selectSingleNode("label")
If Node = Nothing
Ehen
   Response.Write  "Not found..."
Else
Response.Write Node.text