Node value returns null for a XML Input

Question

GETTING ERROR for the below macro script. Need extract date, name and address in a single table. Since there is only one value of date, the second value returns null.

However I need the same value to be present in all records of extract date

Set ApplicationsNode = oXMLFile.SelectNodes("/Extract/Applications/Application")
Set extractnodes = oXMLFile.SelectNodes("/Extract/ExtractDate")
Set NameNode = oXMLFile.SelectNodes("/Extract/Applications/Application/Name/text()")
Set AddrNode = oXMLFile.SelectNodes("/Extract/Applications/Application/Addr/text()")

For i = 0 To (ApplicationsNode.Length - 1)

    Extract = extractnodes(i).NodeValue
    Name = NameNode(i).NodeValue
    Addr = AddrNode(i).NodeValue

    mainWorkBook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & i + 2).Value = Extract
    mainWorkBook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C" & i + 2).Value = Name
    mainWorkBook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("D" & i + 2).Value = Addr

Next

Input XML:

 <Extract>
     <ExtractDate>2018-02-21 10:01:01</ExtractDate>
       <Applications>
          <Application>         
             <Name>1234</Name>
             <Addr>700ST</Addr>
          </Application>    
       <Application>            
            <Name>123466</Name>
            <Addr>277AVD</Addr>
       </Application>
       <Applications>
      </Extract>

Answer 1

Try using the below portion of elements within content.xml file in desktop and run the below code.

within content.xml file:

<Extract>
    <ExtractDate>2018-02-21 10:01:01</ExtractDate>
    <Applications>
        <Application>         
            <Name>1234</Name>
            <Addr>700ST</Addr>
        </Application>    
        <Application>            
            <Name>123466</Name>
            <Addr>277AVD</Addr>
        </Application>
    </Applications>
</Extract>

Script to parse the value from:

Sub DemoXML()
    Dim post As Object

    With CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
        .async = False: .validateOnParse = False
        .Load (ThisWorkbook.path & "\content.xml")

        For Each post In .SelectNodes("//Extract//Application")
            r = r + 1: Cells(r, 1) = post.ParentNode.ParentNode.FirstChild.Text
            Cells(r, 2) = post.SelectNodes(".//Name")(0).Text
            Cells(r, 3) = post.SelectNodes(".//Addr")(0).Text
        Next post
    End With
End Sub

Populated results:

2/21/2018 10:01 1234    700ST
2/21/2018 10:01 123466  277AVD

Answer 2

Better answer already given but here is a variation:

Option Explicit
Public Sub DemoXML()
    Dim post As Object, R As Long, C As Long, dateString As String
    With CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
         .async = False: .validateOnParse = False
        .Load "C:\Users\User\Desktop\random.xml"
        dateString = .SelectSingleNode("//ExtractDate").Text

        For Each post In .SelectNodes("//Application")
            R = R + 1: Cells(R, 1) = dateString
            Cells(R, 2) = post.FirstChild.Text
            Cells(R, 3) = post.LastChild.Text
        Next post
    End With
End Sub