It's mostly a good idea to use xPath if you now the structure of your
XML. From the found path you can process.
So you could use
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\" ?>
<myxml>
<child>
<data1><![CDATA[xxxx]]></data1>
<data2>yyyy</data2>
<data3>zzzz</data3>
</child>
</myxml>
"
set myXML to XMLOpen the result
set theRoot to XMLRoot myXML
set dataList to {}
set childNode to XMLXPath theRoot with "child"
repeat with c from 1 to (XMLCount of childNode)
(*
Note: an "empty" node like:
<child>
</child>
may have a count of 1 as well and could return a "return"
{"
"}
to avoid that empty nodes should look like
<child/>
or "returns" should be deleted before processing the XML
*)
try
set end of dataList to XMLGetText (XMLChild childNode index c)
end
end repeat
XMLClose myXML
return dataList
Regards
Andreas
On 18.02.2007, at 13:04, Jasper Van Proeyen wrote:
Everybody, thanks for your help. I've finally managed to get some
data out of my XML file.
I only don't see how to get all the children's data (data1, data2
and data3) seperately in an array.
Now I just use:
set theChild to XMLChild theRoot index 1
set data1 to XMLGetText (XMLXPath theChild with "data1")
set data2 to XMLGetText (XMLXPath theChild with "data2")
set data3 to XMLGetText (XMLXPath theChild with "data3")
... which does the same thing, only in 3 variables, but what if I
don't exactly know how many children there are and I want to
assemble all their values in one array?
Never mind, I don't have to do this myself, but maybe it's a useful
question for the rest of the list...
Have a look at the Satimage XMLlib osax, this works flawless even
with huge XMLs - at least for me.
data1 seems to be a comment and is not closed, anyway
so data values (using XMLlib osax) will be
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\" ?>
<myxml>
<child>
<data1><![CDATA[xxxx]]></data1>
<data2>yyyy</data2>
<data3>zzzz</data3>
</child>
</myxml>
"
set myXML to XMLOpen the result
set theRoot to XMLRoot myXML
set childData to XMLGetText (XMLXPath theRoot with "child")
XMLClose myXML
--> xxxxyyyyzzzz
Regards
Andreas
On 17.02.2007, at 18:10, Jasper Van Proeyen wrote:
Given that the XML file is generated online: can I just use the
following line to store the complete contents of the XML file in
a variable and somehow still access the "xxxx", "yyyy" and "zzzz"
strings?
set theXML to do shell script "curl --silent 'http://myserver.com/
generatexml.php" (output of the URL is an XML file)
If so, how can I store the 3 string values into an array (or 3
seperate values - it doesn't matter actually)?
If not, what's the best way to access these strings then?
I've tried via "System Events", but that didn't work:
set valueY to value of XML element "data2" of XML elements of XML
element "child" of XML element "myxml" of XML element 1 of
contents of theXML (gives a very strange "Can't make \"myxml\"
into type integer" error)
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