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I'm writing a code in vba to parse data from some websites using xmlhttp request but I noticed that getElementsByTagName method works just for some specific tags.
I prepared the following simple code to test it. The code works with some specific tags like "span", "div", "ls", "a" & "b" but not for others! (you can change the TestTag variable and test it)(The code doesn't work with "lx", "pos", "c" and ... for me.)
I don't know the reason. I searched for the answer and faced with some content about namespace, I read about it but I couldn't find any relation between my problem and this. Please help me to understand the problem.
I changed the code to late binding to be easily used and tested without setting reference objects.(both have the same results.)
Sub TEST()
'Dim HTMLDoc As New MSHTML.HTMLDocument
Dim HTMLDoc As Object
Set HTMLDoc = CreateObject("htmlfile")
'Dim HTMLDiv As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
Dim HTMLDiv As Object
Dim TestTag As String
TestTag = "div"
HTMLDoc.body.innerHTML = "<BODY><" & TestTag & _
"><FIRSTTAG><SPAN class=firstclass>FirstContent<SECTAG>-SecContent</SECTAG></SPAN></FIRSTTAG> </" & _
TestTag & "></BODY>"
Set HTMLDiv = HTMLDoc.getElementsByTagName(TestTag).Item(0)
MsgBox HTMLDiv.innerText
End Sub
Hello again and let me ask another question.
I wrote some function to search in header text but I have trouble to find destination url when I use MSXML and search an item in a website search form and that search guides me to a new url.
Is there any way to obtain the destination address? I really need that.
Another side issue is that using html with MSXML doesn't allow us to use two or more getelementby... in one line of the code. for example when I use IE I can write following code:
Set HTMLDiv = HTMLDoc1.getElementsByClassName("Class1")(0).getElementsByClassName(" Class2")(0)
but when using MSXML I have to break it into the following lines:
HTMLDoc2.body.innerHTML = HTMLDoc1.getElementsByClassName("Class1")(0).innerHTML
Set HTMLDiv = HTMLDoc2.getElementsByClassName(" Class2")(0)
Is there a simpler way to write it?
Hello, thank you for your lessons that I can say are the best among all of the relative tutorials I have seen.
I have a problem with parsing data from the "HEAD" part of html.
by using "HTMLDoc.body.innerHTML = XMLRequest.responseText" we lose this part of html that I exactly need to scrape data from.
I searched the whole internet but I couldn't find the solution.
I need to extract a lot of data from this part so I can't use the InStr function and ...
I would be very grateful if you could help me with this.
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