decoding xml in classic asp

Question

I have the following xml that I need to place element names and values into a database

<questionnaireData>
  <data>
    <name>Dave</name>
    <jobRole>Developer</jobRole>
    <q1>my response</q1>
  </data>
  <data>
    <name>John</name>
    <jobRole>Sales</jobRole>
    <q10>another response</q1>
  </data>
</questionnaire>

The problem I have is decoding through the document with classic asp.

I have

For Each entry In xml.selectNodes("questionnaireData/data")

which correctly gives me the two nodes in the examples, but then for each of these 2 nodes I need to iterate through the contents to update my database. The node names at this level could be very varied.

Could anyone help me to loop through the contents of the "data" node and get at the node name and value for each of the children.

Many thanks

Answer 1

You can acquire the values need using code like this:

Dim name, value

For Each elem in entry.SelectNodes("*")
    name = elem.nodeName
    value = elem.text
    // Do stuff with name/value pair

Next

However there may be a better way to handle XML if you are only updating a database with the XML.