Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: XML.DeletePath

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XML.DeletePath

Delete a xml node.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
XML	7.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "XML.DeletePath"; XML; Path { ; Flags } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags

XML The XML to process.
Can be XML as text or the reference returned by XML.Parse function, so you can make several times changes to the XML without parsing it each time. "<test>Hello</test>"

Path The path to the node or attribute to query. "name"

Flags Various Flags.
Add 1 to ignore errors in xml and continue parsing. This may lead to not everything in the xml being read.
Add 4 to format returned XML.
Add 32 to return result as XML. 0 Optional

Parameter	Description	Example	Flags
XML	The XML to process. Can be XML as text or the reference returned by XML.Parse function, so you can make several times changes to the XML without parsing it each time.	"<test>Hello</test>"
Path	The path to the node or attribute to query.	"name"
Flags	Various Flags. Add 1 to ignore errors in xml and continue parsing. This may lead to not everything in the xml being read. Add 4 to format returned XML. Add 32 to return result as XML.	0	Optional

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Delete a xml node.
This function uses a path notation like the JSON functions in FileMaker to describe paths.
You can use name of a node followed by option index in square brackets. On the end you can use # followed by a name of an attribute to select only the attribute.
Delimiter between items can be dot like FileMaker or newline.

If you pass in a XML reference number and you do not pass Flag value 32 for returning as XML, we just modify the XML reference in memory. This avoids performance hit for outputting and parsing xml for each change.

Examples

Delete node:

MBS( "XML.DeletePath"; "<test><node>Hello</node></test>"; "test.node"; 0)

Example result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test/>

Delete attribute:

MBS( "XML.DeletePath"; "<test><node id=\"123\">Hello</node></test>"; "test.node#id"; 0)

Example result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test><node>Hello</node></test>

Blog Entries

MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 7.4pr6

Release notes

Version 7.4
- Added XML.GetPathValue, XML.DeletePath and XML.SetPathValue functions.

Created 16th September 2017, last changed 2nd February 2018

XML.Compact - XML.ExtractText

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