Vista - parsing xml

I am parsing an xml file but looking for advice on how to better approach.

How do I go about enumerating through the VLAN tags since they have a unqiue
number for each one. I am enumerating each Device attribute.

As of right now I am using a for loop that starts at 1 and goes up to 3. I
would like to just enumerate the tags instead of using a counter.

Code snippet - I left out the intialtialization of loading up xml.

Counter = 0
For h = 1 To 3
Set NetworknodeList = XML.selectNodes("//MyNetwork/Networks/VLAN" & h &
"00/Network")
For i = 0 To NetworknodeList.length -1
sDeviceId=NetworknodeList(i).Attributes.getNamedItem("DeviceId").value
sBeginRange=NetworknodeList(i).Attributes.getNamedItem("BeginRange").value
sEndRange=NetworknodeList(i).Attributes.getNamedItem("EndRange").value

For j = sBeginRange To sEndRange
WScript.Echo sDeviceId & " " & ip & Counter
Counter= Counter + 1
Next
Next
Next


----------SAMPLE XML FILE---------
<MyNetwork>

<Networks>

<VLAN100>

<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>

</VLAN100>

<VLAN200>

<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>

</VLAN200>

<VLAN300>

<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>

</VLAN300>

</MyNetwork>

That's why it's a poorly designed schema, having a VLAN element with an
attribute signifying the number would be better.
One approach would be to use: /MyNetwork/Networks/*/Network.
You don't need the expensive // operator at the start if MyNetwork is the
document element.
Alternatively: /MyNetwork/Networks/*[starts-with(local-name(),
'VLAN')]/Network

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name
"Big D" <BigDaddy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I implemented the following /MyNetwork/Networks/*/Network per your direction
and it worked.

For best practices should I remove the numbers following the VLAN and just
have VLAN tags. I need to idnetify each vlan with a number. Where should I
put the number? I updated example below but looking for best approach.

Thanks!

----------UPDATED SAMPLE XML FILE---------
<MyNetwork>
<Networks>
<VLAN>
<vlanID>1</vlanID>
<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>
</VLAN>
<VLAN>
<vlanID>2</vlanID>
<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>
</VLAN>
<VLAN>
<vlanID>3</vlanID>
<Network DeviceId="Router" BeginRange="1" EndRange="1"/>
</VLAN>
</MyNetwork>




"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Big D" wrote:
That works, but if you ever want to be able to select a single VLAN based on
its id, you'd have to find the vlanID node first and then go back up a level
to get to the VLAN, per se.

So why not simply us
<VLAN id="1">....</VLAN>
<VLAN id="2">....</VLAN>
etc.

???

Now you can do an XPath query to get any particular VLAN quite easily.