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You use Lingo to access the nodes of an XML document. The following table shows the Lingo
terms that refer to nodes and their properties:
Node Lingo
type
name
child[N]
(N is an integer)
attributeName[N]
(N is an integer)
attributeValue[N]
(N is an integer)
attributeValue[N]
(N is a string)
text
count
Note: The subfield
whichNode.child.count
Using this XML document as a starting point, the following examples demonstrate how to use
these Lingo terms to access the data within various node levels of the XML structure.
The XML looks like the following example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<e1>
<tagName attr1="val1" attr2="val2"/>
<e2>element 2</e2>
<e3>element 3</e3>
Here is some text
</e1>
The following Lingo returns the name of the first XML tag:
put gParserObject.child[1].name
-- "e1"
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Return value if an Return value if text
element
#element #text
String representing VOID
the name of the
element
The Nth child node of VOID
the node;
VOID is returned if no
Nth child exists or
there is a script error
String representing VOID
the name of the Nth
attribute;
VOID is returned if no
Nth attribute exists or
there is a script error
String representing VOID
the value of the Nth
attribute;
VOID is returned if no
Nth attribute exists or
there is a script error
String representing VOID
the value of the
attribute with the
name N;
VOID is returned if the
node does not have
an attribute named N
or there is a script
error
VOID String representing
the character data
contained in this node
exists for any field that is accessible with bracket access. You can specify
to find how many children are in the specified node.
Return value if Processing Instruction
#procInst
String representing the name of the
processing instruction
VOID
VOID
VOID
VOID
String representing the data section of the
processing instruction