First Time COM user w/ MSXML

[electronicman_x]

I'm trying to utilize Microsoft's MS XML 4.0 parser to obtain some data from an XML file. I'm using C++ so im I'm having a bit of trouble writing a simple console app that can find an XML node of my choice and retrieve data associated with it. I am trying to utilize the XML DOM Method GetAttribute. (as seen on MSDN @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xml\_mth\_dg\_5rfo.asp I've worked through another example tutorial which creates a very simple app that loads the whole XML document and prints it to screen. I have no trouble with that but when I tried to utilize the MSDN example for GetAttribute, the code is riddled with problems and I have been unable to over come them. I'm sure if i saw a simple app that did what i was looking for i would understand how to use this better, but i have looked all over for such an animal and they are either way too big or way to simple to get anything from them. I am also having some troubles fully understanding _variant_t and _bstr_t. If anyone can provide some advice or a very simple example (like something that can read 10 line xml file and find one tag in it and print its data), I would be grateful. PS: My problem may stem from: GetAttribute code: MSDN says it takes two parameters but it will not compile that way. SetAttribute appears to take similar parameters and it will compile with 2 parameters. Thanks Jeff Rothenberg Project Engineer Vector CANtech, Inc.