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Component: XML

Functions for working on XML text.

With XPath queries you can query values or lists from XML.

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.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.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

39 functions.

Release notes

Version 11.1
- Added XML.SetPathCData function.
Version 10.5
- Changed XML.ToJSON and added option for compacter attributes processing.
Version 10.4
- Changed JSON.ToXML to recreate attributes stored as @attributes entry by XML.ToJSON function.
- Fixed bug in XML.NodeCount and XML.NodeNames, where root node was counted when we had no children.
- Improved text encoding handling for XML Parsing in XML functions, Menu.DefineQuickMenuXML and Clipboard functions.
Version 10.2
- Added XML.Compact function.
- Changed XML.ValidateFile to accept schema as XML file path.
Version 10.0
- Fixed XML.ApplyStylesheet to return empty string if result should be empty.
- Improved CData handling for XML.ToJSON function.
Version 9.5
- Fixed a problem with XML.ApplyStylesheet only returned first block of text instead of full text.
- Fixed bug in XML.ToJSON function.
Version 9.3
- Added JSON.Import.ErrorCount, JSON.Import.Errors, XML.Import.ErrorCount, XML.Import.Errors.
- Fixed memory leak in XML.ReadContainer function.
Version 9.1
- Changed XML.Import to ignore BOM character.
- Fixed a problem with XML.Parse getting an XML reference number.
Version 8.5
- Improved XML.Import to better detect lists of XML nodes.
Version 8.4
- Added XML.ApplyStylesheet function.
- Improved XML.ExtractText to handle CData, too.
Version 8.2
- Added XML.Colorize function.
- Added XML.ToJSON function.
- Added XML.ValidateFile function.
- Changed XML.ToJSON to create array if a key is used several times.
- Changed XML.Validate to return errors about parsing the XSD schema.
- Fixed XML.Colorize function coloring for attributes.
- Improved XML.Validate to return several errors.
Version 8.1
- Added XML.SetPathXML function.
- Added XML.Validate function.
- Changed XML.GetPathValue to return CDATA section as text if possible.
- For XML.SetPathValue and XML.SetPathXML you can now specify [] (Without index) to add new node on the end.
Version 8.0
- Changed XML.Query to return attribute list properly.
Version 7.5
- Added flag 2 to XML.GetPathValue to ignore errors.
- Fixed an issue with XML.GetPathValue not finding right nodes.
- Fixed problem with XML.Import and CData nodes.
- Improved XML.Format function and xml parsing to better handle blank areas.
Version 7.4
- Added XML.GetPathValue, XML.DeletePath and XML.SetPathValue functions.
- Added XML.ReadContainer and XML.ReadFile functions.
Version 7.3
- Added XML.Parse and XML.Release to parse XML once and query several times to get better performance.
- Improved speed of XML functions.
Version 7.1
- Added flags to XML.Import to trim and convert CData to text.
- Added new flags for XML.Import function for easier import of XML from SOAP Webservices.
- Added option to XML.NodeNames to ignore empty entries.
- Added XML.Import.SetBaseFields and XML.Import.SetExtraField.
Version 7.0
- Added XML helper functions: XML.ExtractText, XML.NodeNames, XML.SetVariables, XML.ListAttributes, XML.HasAttributes, XML.GetAttributes and XML.SubTree.
- Added XML.NodeCount function.

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