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, j...@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 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
