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Posted: **Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:49 pm**

Hi everyone...

I'm having some trouble getting some informations from my XML and maybe someone can help me with it (or point me in the right direction).

This is my XML scructure (example)

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<root>
	<AAA att="1">
		<SubA>...</board>
		<SubB att1="..." att2="...">							
			<SubSubA att="..."> 
				<item1>...</item1>
				<item2>...</item2>
				<item3>...</item3>
			</SubSubA>
		</SubB>
	</AAA>
	<AAA att="2">
		(...)
	</AAA>
	<BBB att="3">
		(...)
	</BBB>
	(...)
</root>

Now, based on this structure

This gives me the path to the the child node (of root) with the attribute att = "1"

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put revXMLMatchingNode(treeID, "/root", , "att", "1", -1) into componentNode

This will give me the Content (value) of the node ".../SubA"

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revXMLNodeContents(treeID, componentNode & "/SubA")

Now ... how do I get the Node "SubB"?
I though that I could use something like this but .. it doesn't work.

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revXMLMatchingNode(treeID, componentNode , "SubB", , , -1)

Any Ideas ??

Many thanks in advance

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:11 pm**

Hi,

It isn't entirely clear to me what the problem is. To get all subnodes, you could use

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put revXMLEvaluateXPath(gTreeID,"/root/AAA/*") into myList

This will tell you that AAA has subnodes SubA and SubB. Similarly, you can get the subnodes of AAA etc. If you want to have the data in item1, you can use

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put revXMLNodeContents(gTreeID, "/root/AAA/SubB/item1") into myData

Does this help?

Mark

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:38 pm**

hmm I thought that Ir could be possible to get the path in a generic way without providing the full path (as you do).
Seems that that is the way to go...

about "revXMLEvaluateXPath" ... I didn't knew that handlers ... it's not on the API Dictionary

is there any other "new" XML related handlers??
Any up to date list of new/recent handlers ?

Many thanks,
- Miguel

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:44 pm**

Hi Miguel,

It is easy to write a generic script to get all paths:

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on mouseUp
   // here, fld "Filepath" contains the path to the XML file
   put revXMLCreateTreeFromFile(fld "Filepath",false,true,false) into gTreeID
   put "/" into myNode
   put 0 into myCounter
   repeat
      add 1 to myCounter
      put revXMLEvaluateXPath(gTreeID,myNode & "/*") & cr after myList
      filter myList without empty // slightly inefficient, sorry
      if line myCounter of myList is empty then
         exit repeat
      else
         put line myCounter of myList into myNode
      end if
   end repeat
   // clean up
   revXMLDeleteTree gTreeID
   put empty into gTreeID // just testing
   put myList // see result in message box
end mouseUp

This is for a customer's project I'm currently working on. The principle of this script allows you to find any node and then get its data or attributes.

The functions revXMLEvaluateXPath and revXMLDataFromXPathQuery have been added in LC 6.5 and I consider them essential.

Kind regards,

Mark

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