>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>




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Bill Steele
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