[RESOLVED] XML Woes

[DataMiser]

I've been banging my head for a while now and just can't seem to figure out what the problem is here. I have not really worked with XML much and thought it would be good to do some work with it in order to have a better understanding. I decided to write a little program to allow editing a game file. I found some examples on the net of basic XML functions and tried to use one of them in my program.

The Xml file I am working with is huge so I will show just enough to give an idea of the format.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Proto version ='2'>
 <Unit id ='0' name ='InvisibleProjectile'>
  <DBID>20</DBID>
  <DisplayNameID>22885</DisplayNameID>
  <Flag>NoIdleActions</Flag>
  <Flag>NonCollideable</Flag>
  <Flag>DestroyProjectile</Flag>
  <Flag>DoNotCreateUnitGroupAutomatically</Flag>
  <Flag>NoBloodOnDeath</Flag>
 </Unit>
 <Unit id ='1' name ='Cannonball'>
  <DBID>21</DBID>
  <DisplayNameID>22888</DisplayNameID>
  <UnitType>EmbellishmentClass</UnitType>
  <Flag>NoHPBar</Flag>
  <Flag>NonAutoFormedUnit</Flag>
  <Flag>DoNotShowOnMiniMap</Flag>
 </Unit>
</Proto>

This is the code I tried most recently

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Try
            Dim m_xmld As XmlDocument
            Dim m_nodelist As XmlNodeList
            Dim m_node As XmlNode
            m_xmld = New XmlDocument()
            m_xmld.Load("C:\aoework\protox.xml")
            m_nodelist = m_xmld.SelectNodes("/proto/unit")
            For Each m_node In m_nodelist
                TextBox1.Text += m_node.Name & vbCrLf
            Next
        Catch errorVariable As Exception
            TextBox1.Text = errorVariable.ToString()
        End Try
    End Sub

I have tried different text in the select nodes portion, such as "proto" "/proto" and the above but in every case I get a count of 0 on the node list and nothing is displayed in my textbox.

Each <Unit> is roughy 30-35 lines and the file has over 59k lines of units so clearly the count should be rather high but always 0.

Any idea what I am doing wrong here.


btw The above is using VB 2005, I also tried in VB 2008 before but same results.

[DataMiser]

Apparently the select is Case Sensitive

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Apparently the select is Case Sensitive

Indeed it is. That really sucks about XML. I have run into this same problem some time ago and wasn't impressed finding out that it was case sensitive. Good luck though!