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Component: XML
Functions for working on XML text.
With XPath queries you can query values or lists from XML.
| Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK | License |
| 3.0 / 11.5 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | Paid |
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Dictionary.ToXML Returns XML representation of dictionary for data exchange. | All 6.1 |
| XML.ApplyStylesheet Apply the stylesheet to the document (XSLT transform). | All 8.4 |
| XML.ApplyStylesheet2 Apply the stylesheet to the document (XSLT transform). | All 11.5 |
| XML.Canonical Creates canonical xml. | All 6.2 |
| XML.ClearVariables Clears the variables. | All 7.0 |
| XML.Colorize Formats a XML string with color. | All 8.2 |
| XML.Compact Compacts XML document. | All 10.2 |
| XML.DeletePath Delete a xml node. | All 7.4 |
| XML.ExtractText Extracts the text from the XML tree. | All 7.0 |
| XML.Format Formats XML document. | All 6.2 |
| XML.GetAttribute Queries text of an attribute. | All 7.0 |
| XML.GetPathValue Queries value in XML. | All 7.4 |
| XML.HasAttribute Queries whether an attribute exists. | All 7.0 |
| XML.Import Imports XML and creates tables, fields and records. | All 5.3 |
| XML.Import.Cancel Cancels current import. | All 5.3 |
| XML.Import.ErrorCount Queries error counter. | All 9.3 |
| XML.Import.Errors Queries list of error messages. | All 9.3 |
| XML.Import.SetBaseFields Sets the names of the base fields per record. | All 7.1 |
| XML.Import.SetExtraField Sets the extra field to add to all tables. | All 7.1 |
| XML.Import.Status Queries status of xml import. | All 5.3 |
| XML.Import.Todo Queries how many items are to be done for XML import. | All 5.3 |
| XML.Import.Total Queries total items to be imported. | All 5.3 |
| XML.Import.Work Performs import. | All 5.4 |
| XML.ItemRefs Queries entries from XML nodes. | All 11.5 |
| XML.ListAttributes Lists attribute names. | All 7.0 |
| XML.NodeCount Counts nodes with given name. | All 7.0 |
| XML.NodeNames Queries list of node names in an XML. | All 7.0 |
| XML.Parse Parses a XML document. | All 7.3 |
| XML.Query Performs an XPath query. | All 3.0 |
| XML.ReadContainer Reads container content as XML. | All 7.4 |
| XML.ReadFile Reads a file as XML. | All 7.4 |
| XML.Release Releases an XML object. | All 7.3 |
| XML.ReleaseAll Releases all XML objects. | All 7.3 |
| XML.SetPathCData Sets path value with CData. | All 11.1 |
| XML.SetPathValue Sets a xml node. | All 7.4 |
| XML.SetPathXML Sets path value with XML sub tree. | All 8.1 |
| XML.SetVariables Creates local variables in script for XML nodes. | All 7.0 |
| XML.SubTree Extracts a given subtree. | All 7.0 |
| XML.ToJSON Converts XML to JSON. | All 8.2 |
| XML.Validate Validates XML against schema. | All 8.1 |
| XML.ValidateFile Validates XML against schema. | All 8.2 |
41 functions shown.
Release notes
- Version 12.2
- Changed XML.NodeNames to return names in order of appearance.
- Changed XML.SetPathValue to create text note if needed.
- Version 12.1
- Added darkMode parameter for XML.Colorize and JSON.Colorize function.
- Added new flag for XML.ToJSON to include namespaces.
- Fixed a problem with XML.Query, where the first only flag was not handled correctly.
- Version 12.0
- Changed XML.Query to remove surrounding quotes for namespaces.
- Version 11.5
- Added XML.ApplyStylesheet2 function.
- Added XML.ItemRefs function.
- Fixed error message reporting problem for XML.ApplyStylesheet function.
- Version 11.4
- Added possibility to use backslash in XML.GetPathValue to mask dots in xml node names.
- Changed XML.SetVariables to assign XML block if item is a xml tree and not recursive.
- Fixed an issue with XML.Import not parsing huge XML files with big text nodes correctly.
- Version 11.3
- Added flag 16 for XML.Query to only return first item of result.
- Added flag 32 for XML.Query to return multiple XML nodes as a list with each as XML.
- Changed JSON.Import and XML.Import to be per thread, so they work better on server with multiple parallel scripts.
- Version 11.2
- Added new flags for XML.ToJSON to detect numbers and booleans better.
- Fixed problem with XML.ExtractText and XML.GetPathValue not seeing all text if there are XML nodes within a text block.
- Improved XML functions (on Windows) to better handle unknown encodings.
- Version 11.1
- Added XML.SetPathCData function.
- Version 10.5
- Changed XML.ToJSON and added option for compacter attributes processing.
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FileMaker Magazin
- Ausgabe 5/2018, Seite 25, PDF
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- Ausgabe 3/2017, Seite 27, PDF
- Ausgabe 4/2016, Seite 19, PDF
- Ausgabe 5/2015, Seite 38
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Videos
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