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nick brandwood - 01 Mar 2005 13:45 GMT

is there a Best Practice method for changing a checkbox attached to an
attribute?

if my section contains the attribute "completed", a true/false attribute,

should I be using:
C#

IXMLDOMNode nodeSection=
thisXDocument.Dom.SelectNode("/my:myFields/my:section")

thisXDocument.GetNamedNodeProperty(nodeSection,'completed','no value');

or

nodeSelection.attributes.setNamedItem('completed')="1" ?

(I ask because I've not managed to get either of thse methods to work.)

thanks,

nick

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nick brandwood - 01 Mar 2005 14:03 GMT

that line should read:

thisXDocument.GetNamedNodeProperty(nodeSection,'completed','no value')="1";

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Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP] - 01 Mar 2005 20:13 GMT

It appears you are getting a few completely different things mixed up. GetNamedNodeProperty is entirely different, and has nothing to do with DOM Attributes.

If you want to set an attribute, you can do something like:

thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:section/@completed").text = "{new value}"

Where {new value} is one of the two boolean values you are using (i.e. 1/0 or true/false).

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nick brandwood - 02 Mar 2005 08:51 GMT

now I see how it works!

I had made a mistake in my xpath and given up on this route.

thanks!

nick

> It appears you are getting a few completely different things mixed up. GetNamedNodeProperty is entirely different, and has nothing to do with DOM Attributes.
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> nick

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nick brandwood - 02 Mar 2005 09:49 GMT

in case anyone else is reading this conversation, the correct command was:

thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:richiesta/@my:completed").text = "1";

my:richiesta is a group with the attribute completed.
note the namespace 'my:' before the attribute name.

thanks Greg!

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