XMLDocument Class

Represents an XML document. It is used for both parsing existing XML data into a DOM document structure or creating an new XML document from scratch.

Events

None

Properties

DocumentElement

PreserveWhiteSpace

ToString

Methods

CreateAttribute	CreateProcessingInstruction
CreateAttribute	CreateTextNode
CreateCDATASection	ImportNode
CreateComment	LoadXML
CreateElement	LoadXML
CreateElement	Transform

More information available in parent classes: XMLNode:Object

Constructor

Name	Parameters	Description
XMLDocument		Creates an empty document.
XMLDocument	XML as String	Parses the passed XML string into the document.
XMLDocument	f as FolderItem	Parses the passed XML file into the document.

Example

This example creates a very simple XML document.

Dim xml as XmlDocument
Dim root, person, firstname, lastname as XMLNode

xml = New XmlDocument
root = xml.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("root"))
person = root.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("person"))
firstname = person.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("firstname"))
firstname.AppendChild(xml.CreateTextNode("John"))
lastname = person.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("lastname"))
lastname.AppendChild(xml.CreateTextNode("Doe"))
//create_output is a muti-line EditField
create_output.text = xml.ToString

This example adds "ID" and "active" attributes to an element.

Dim xml as XmlDocument
Dim root, node, attNode as XMLNode

xml = New XmlDocument
root = xml.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("root"))
node = root.AppendChild(xml.CreateElement("person"))

attNode = xml.CreateAttribute("id")
attNode.value = "55"

node.SetAttribute("active", "true")

create_output.text = xml.ToString

This example parses XML and displays the number of "Person" nodes and the document text in an EditField.

Dim xdoc as XmlDocument
Dim node as XMLNode
Dim i, count as Integer
Dim out as String

  // create a new document
xdoc = New XmlDocument

xdoc.PreserveWhitespace = False

  // load and parse the xml in the EditField, parse_InputText
xdoc.LoadXml(parse_inputText.Text)

  // lets first do some simple, static traversing of the xml
  // this doesn't do any error checking to make sure stuff exists
  // so if the document changes, it will break.

count = xdoc.DocumentElement.childCount
out = "People: " + Str(count)  //number of Person nodes
out = out + EndOfLine

  // childNodes are 0 based.
For i = 0 to count - 1

node = xdoc.DocumentElement.Child(i)

    // this gets the textnode of the <firstname> node
out = out + node.FirstChild.FirstChild.Value

    // this gets the textnode of the <lastname> node
out = out + " " + node.LastChild.FirstChild.Value
out = out + EndOfLine

next

//display results in the EditField parse_output
parse_output.text = out