Hi,

I'm using the XML DOM from VBScript and I want to detect whether
selectSingleNode()
has returned an object or not. e.g. the following code works fine but how
do I know if "nodeobj" is a valid object ? If you change the pattern search
to "test/xxx"
then MsgBox line fails with "object required".

Thanks

set obj = CreateObject("MSXML.DOMDocument")
obj.loadXML("<test><hello>bye</hello></test>")
set nodeobj = obj.selectSingleNode("test/hello")        // change search
pattern to "test/xxxx" to get error
MsgBox nodeobj.text
set nodeobj = nothing
set obj = nothing

set obj = CreateObject("MSXML.DOMDocument")
obj.loadXML("<test><hello>bye</hello></test>")
set nodeobj = obj.selectSingleNode("test/hello")      
if not (nodeobj Is Nothing) then
  msgbox "1) it worked..."
else
  msgbox "1) it didn't..."
end if
set nodeobj = obj.selectSingleNode("test/xxxx")      
if not (nodeobj Is Nothing) then
  msgbox "2) it worked..."
else
  msgbox "2) it didn't..."
end if

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