Looping through an XML file

Question

I got this really great script that loops through some XML files and does stuff based off the content.
What I would like to do now is have it repeat when it gets to a certain field. for example my xml file would look like this.
<xml>
<fileName>nameoffile</fileName>
<userEmail>[email protected]</userEmail>
<commandList>
<item>info here</item>
<item>more info here</item>
<item>yet more info</item>
<item>still more info here</item>
</commandList>
</xml>
then basically i need the applescript to see the <commandList> tag and then repeat for each item.
i can't seem to wrap my head around how to get it to happen.
currently I am using this to extract the normal tags from the xml file
set theXML to choose file
tell application "System Events"
tell XML element 1 of contents of XML file theXML
set the fileName to value of (XML elements whose name is "fileName")
... and so on
end tell
end tell
i believe i have to put an if statment in saying that if the element name == "commandList" then
repeat with item in commandList
my stuff here.
end repeat
but i'm not sure how to build the statement.
thanks for any help.
P

Answer 1

Something like this?
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set theXML to POSIX path of (choose file)
tell application "System Events"
tell XML element 1 of contents of XML file theXML -- root element
set the fileName to value of XML element "fileName"
get value of XML elements of XML element "commandList" -- sub elements
repeat with anItem in the result
log anItem
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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