Assuming that what you're trying to do is to get all the "Titles"  
from your XML document, here is an equivalent using XMLLib :

set theXML to XMLOpen (choose file)
XMLGetText (XMLXPath (XMLRoot theXML) with "//title")
XMLClose theXML

-> {"Art/Soul/Africa: A Photographer's Journey", "Campus Tour", "In  
the Founders' Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell University Library"}


On May 29, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Bill Steele wrote:

>> CAn you send us a XML sample and your script ? I'm using the  
>> XMLLib scripting a lot and in my experience parsing XML documents  
>> has never required much call to the osax.
>>
>> ++ JB
>>
>> On May 29, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
>>
>>> Whatever it is, it sure isn't intuitive.  Most everything I've  
>>> tried brings back "Can't make .... into type reference" or just  
>>> "can't get every..."
>>>
>>> Satimage XML suite works, but seems to require an awful lot of  
>>> steps to get down to the data.
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bill Steele
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>
>
> Here are some things that don't work:
>
> set foo to choose file
>
> tell application "System Events"
>
> set bar to XML data of foo
> set Fred to XML elements of bar
>
> set bar to XML data of XML file foo
> set Fred to XML elements of bar
>
> set theEntries to XML elements of XML data of XML file foo
>
> set George to value of XML element "title" of XML data of XML file foo
>
> end tell
>
> (I find it curious that the dictionary says XML data is contained  
> by *application," not file. )
>
> All this is in Tiger 10.4.9
>
> a short piece of a very long file.
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <eventlist>
>   <event>
>     <eventid>16065</eventid>
>     <title>Art/Soul/Africa: A Photographer's Journey</title>
>
>     <category>Exhibit</category>
>     <location>Museum of the Earth</location>
>     <room></room>
>     <date>2006-09-07</date>
>     <time>All Day</time>
>     <duration></duration>
>     <recurring>yes</recurring>
>
>     <cancelled>no</cancelled>
>     <keywords></keywords>
>   </event>
>   <event>
>     <eventid>15627</eventid>
>     <title>Campus Tour</title>
>     <category>Tour</category>
>
>     <location>Day Hall</location>
>     <room>Lobby</room>
>     <date>2006-09-07</date>
>     <time>09:00:00</time>
>     <duration>01:15:00</duration>
>     <recurring>yes</recurring>
>
>     <cancelled>no</cancelled>
>     <keywords></keywords>
>   </event>
>   <event>
>     <eventid>16466</eventid>
>     <title>In the Founders' Footsteps: Builders of the Cornell  
> University Library</title>
>     <category>Exhibit</category>
>
>     <location>Kroch Library</location>
>     <room>Hirshland Gallery</room>
>     <date>2006-09-07</date>
>     <time>09:00:00</time>
>     <duration>08:00:00</duration>
>     <recurring>yes</recurring>
>
>     <cancelled>no</cancelled>
>     <keywords></keywords>
>   </event>
>   </eventlist>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Bill Steele
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