XML / XSL

Yep, the "pure" xsl solution will be using position() I believe, like this: "/store/books[position() <= 5]" This will select 5 first books Philip Patrick Web-site: www.stpworks.com "Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer

Well, if you have created the class for handling your dataset (Generate code or something), then you should be able to use a function of propertyRow, which named like GetSellingpointRows(). If you don't see it, then you can try using GetChildRows anyway. I can't help you much with VB, but here is a link to IBuySpy[^]. You can download a VB version and see how they did this (look in PortalCfg.vb and Components/Configuration.vb): Philip Patrick Web-site: www.stpworks.com "Two beer or not two beer?" Shakesbeer

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as you can see i translated it to vb: Dim searchTerm As String = "hello, world" Dim results As XmlNodeList Dim queryString As String = "//*[contains('" & searchTerm & "')]" Dim xmldoc As New XmlDocument() xmldoc.Load("guestbook.xml") results = xmldoc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes(queryString) Response.Write(results) but why do i keep gettin this error: Function 'contains' in '//*[contains(bug)]' has invalid number of arguments. also how else can i write it out other than response.write thanks for the help Da Intern

I see now, that Excel is showing the data properly. Toad doesn't...

Thanks. that did the job although for the record it was /Form[2]/Item instead of /Form/Item[2]

Like was said in the other forum, the schemas must match first.

disreqard Da Intern

Ok, thanks for your time; you were very helpful Dave ratti

yeah...i thought i would have to write my own function to calculate the current position. I was hoping i overlooked something and that it was possible to retrieve the index/position directly from a found node. Thanks though, for your reply.

In your first schema you should change the xmlns:gns="http://localhost/XMLWebServices/GeneralFormatting.xsd" to xmlns="http://localhost/XMLWebServices/GeneralFormatting.xsd" so that all types declared are in that namespace, otherwise you would have to put the gns prefix on all type names...

Must define Credentials Dim ws As New localhost.WebS() ws.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials Jason W.

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