Dumb XML library question

[jbv at souslelogo.com]

Thanks Dave,
I had noticed revXMLChildNames but I didn't know that
the child tag followed by a number inside brackets could
be used to form the path to a specific child...

jbv


>
> On 5 Aug 2014, at 15:00, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> When I have a tree such as the following one :
>> <person>
>>  <aliases>
>>    <name>name1</name>
>>    <name>name2</name>
>>    <name>name3</name>
>>  </aliases>
>> </person>
>>
>> Is there a simple way to loop through the children of <aliases>
>> and get their respective contents ?
>> Please correct me is I'm wrong, but it looks like all xml functions
>> require the path to the child, which doesn't work in this case for
>> the path person/aliases/name always leads to the first child...
>>
>> I found a workaround by sucessively deleting the 1st child and
>> then getting the firstchildcontent, but that means more lines of
>> code and destruction of parts of the tree...
>
>
> There may be a better way, but using revXMLChildNames allows you get the
> child names with the index appended (e.g. name[1], name[2], etc.)
>
>  put field 1 into tData //source of xml text
>  put revXMLCreateTree(tData,true,true,false) into tID
>  put revXMLChildNames(tID, "person/aliases/", cr, "name" ,true) into
> tNameNodes
>  put "" into tOut
>  repeat for each line tNodeName in tNameNodes
>    put "person/aliases/" & tNodeName into tNode
>    put revXMLNodeContents(tID, tNode)  & cr after tOut
>  end repeat
>  put tOut into field 2
>
> Cheers
> Dave Cragg
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