Quick Test Professional - The starters Guide

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a text-based format that allows for the structuring of electronic documents and is not limited to a set of labels.

• XML was designed to describe data, not to display data.
• XML tags are not predefined. You must define your own tags.
• XML is designed to be self-descriptive.

Sample XML and key elements are shown below:

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Let's now check how we can access XML 

1. Creating an object for xmlDOM

set xmldom = Createobject("MSXML.DOMDocument")
xmldom.async = "False"

2. Loading a file using xml DOM

Xmldom.Load (FileName)

3. To Find number of parent nodes in a xml

Intlen = Xmldom.childnodes.length 

 4.To find names of parent nodes

 For i=0 to intlen-1
 strParNodeName = xmldom.childnodes(i).Name
 Next 

5. How to search a node with tagName

Set nodelist = xmldom.getElementsByTagName(strTagName)

Example

How to compare XMLs

We can compare two given xml's as shown in the code snippet below