Xml manipulation

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PaulHMason

(Posted 2012) [#1]

I might be missing something here, but does Monkey support loading, querying and saving xml documents?

Thanks

Shinkiro1

(Posted 2012) [#2]

Not out of the box. You can use the xml parser in diddy however.

Samah

(Posted 2012) [#3]

<?xml version="1.0 ?>
<hello>
  <world foo="bar" />
  <world foo="baz">woot</world>
</hello>

[monkeycode]Local parser:XMLParser = New XMLParser
Local doc:XMLDocument = parser.ParseFile("somefile.xml")
Print doc.Root.Name
For Local node:XMLElement = EachIn doc.Root.Children
Print node.GetAttribute("foo")
Print node.Value
Next[/monkeycode]

hello
bar

baz
woot

It basically builds a tree of XMLElement instances, where doc.Root is the root node. GetAttribute takes an optional default value, and you can use HasAttribute to check if it's there. Name is the node name, Value is the contents (raw text).