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XML.Colorize

Formats a XML string with color.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
XML 8.2 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "XML.Colorize"; XML { ; DarkMode } )   More

(old name: XML.Colourise)

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
XML The XML text to process. "<test>Hello</test>"
DarkMode Available in MBS FileMaker Plugin 12.1 or newer.
Whether to swap colors to use white for text color.
Pass 1 for dark mode and 0 for light mode.
Default is 0 for light mode.		 0 Optional

Result

Returns formatted text or error.

Description

Formats a XML string with color.
This colorizes an existing XML text to show to user, but does not check syntax.
Keys get blue, text value black, attributes in purple.

Text is returned only with colors. You can apply text font and font size with normal FileMaker functions.
Processing time is linear to length, so should be faster than custom functions.

Applying text styles takes time. You may consider to skip this if your JSON is e.g. bigger than a million characters to improve performance of your scripts.

Examples

Colorize a field:

Set Field [ Data::XML ; MBS("XML.Colorize"; Data::XML) ]

Line numbers, color and format:

MBS( "Text.AddLineNumbers"; MBS( "XML.Colorize"; MBS( "XML.Format"; Buckets::Listing)))

Colorize in Auto-Enter calculation:

MBS("XML.Colorize"; self)

// put this calculation into a field, so the field gets colorized whenever the field is changed and the record gets commited.

Colorize and format in Auto-Enter calculation:

Let ( [
xmlFormatted = MBS("XML.Format"; Self);
xmlFormatFailed = MBS("IsError");
xmlText = If(xmlFormatFailed; Self; xmlFormatted);
result = MBS("XML.Colorize"; xmlText)
]; result )

// put this calculation into a field, so the field gets formated and colorized whenever the field is changed and the record gets commited.

See also

Release notes

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This function is free to use.

Created 8th April 2018, last changed 19th June 2024


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