evaluating expression with an object

[ryan101]

I need to call multiple trees in an xml document. The call for a single tree is simple. I just define tree as an object that points to the document and...

set branch1 = tree.item(0).childNodes
set branch2 = tree.item(1).childNodes
...etc...

I need to have a loop that does something like this.

for x = 0 to something.length
set branch = tree.item(x).childNodes
do something with branch
next

I've tried doing the following:
set branch = eval("tree.item(" & x & &quotchildNodes&quot
eval("set branch = tree.item(" & x & &quotchildNodes&quot
execute("set branch = tree.item(" & x & &quotchildNodes&quot

none of those seemed to work. I don't think this is an xml specific issue. I just need to figure out how to set objects using variables and loops.

 

[link9]

What you need is an array of objects so that you can refer to them ordinally as you have the items in your tree.

dim branchArray

for i = 0 to n
set branchArray(i) = tree.item(i).childNodes
next

Something along those lines. I'm not familiar with XML, but this method does work for things like recordsets, etc...


Paul Prewett