(Classic ASP) Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags.

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<html>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
' This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
' <someEntries>
'     <entry>
'         <id>123</id>
'         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
'         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
'         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
'         <title>George Costanza</title>
'          <gd:name>
'             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
'             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
'             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
'         </gd:name>
'         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
'         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
'         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
'         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
'         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
'     </entry>
' </someEntries>
' 

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml")
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")

success = xml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml")

numPhoneNumbers = xml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:phoneNumber")
i = 0
Do While i < numPhoneNumbers
    ' xPhoneNumber is a Chilkat.Xml
    Set xPhoneNumber = xml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:phoneNumber",i)
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xPhoneNumber.Content) & "</pre>"

    i = i + 1
Loop
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "----") & "</pre>"

numGroupMemberships = xml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo")
i = 0
Do While i < numGroupMemberships
    ' xMembership is a Chilkat.Xml
    Set xMembership = xml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo",i)
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xMembership.GetAttrValue("href")) & "</pre>"

    i = i + 1
Loop

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