On Dec 18, 2017, at 19:59, Shane Stanley <sstanley@...> wrote:

On 18 Dec 2017, at 5:13 pm, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@...> wrote:

I guess I'll have to try AppleScriptObjC then... Which means diving into your book...

It doesn't get much more than a passing reference, with one example using XPath queries. It's the sort of thing where the approach depends largely on the structure of the XML you're dealing with. That said, if XPath suits the job, it saves a lot of work and time.