Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Component: XML

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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
3.0 / 12.4	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes

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.GetSaveNoEmptyTags Queries whether to include close tags for empty nodes.	All 12.4
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.SetSaveNoEmptyTags Sets whether to include close tags for empty nodes.	All 12.4
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

43 functions shown.

Release notes

Version 12.4
- Added flags for JSON.Import and XML.Import functions to skip table and field creation.
- Added XML.GetSaveNoEmptyTags and XML.SetSaveNoEmptyTags functions.
- Changed JSON.ToXML to unpack the text nodes made by XML.ToJSON.
- Improved XML.Import and JSON.Import to better report progress on slow connections.
- Improved XML.ToJSON to handle data type conversion for attributes, too.
Version 12.3
- You can now use english spelling JSON.Colourise and XML.Colourise if you prefer to call JSON.Colorize or XML.Colorize.
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.

Component: XML

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