This function creates an xmlnode from a string input.

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• Method:XML.loadstring(...)

Syntax

​xmlnode|false xmlLoadString ( ​string xmlString )

Required arguments

• xmlString: A string containing XML data.

Returns

Returns the root xmlnode object of an xml string if successful, or false otherwise (invalid XML string).

• xmlnode|false: xmlnode

Code Examples

Example 1 Example 2 (OOP)

shared

This example loads an XML string and loops the children while outputting to debugscript.

local rootNode = xmlLoadString("<animals test='x'><wolf name='timmy'></wolf> <fox name='luxy'></fox></animals>")

if rootNode then
  local rootAttributes = xmlNodeGetAttributes(rootNode)
  print("Root Node", "Name: "..xmlNodeGetName(rootNode),  "Attributes :"..toJSON(rootAttributes))

  local children = xmlNodeGetChildren(rootNode)

  for i, childNode in ipairs(children) do
    local attributes = xmlNodeGetAttributes(childNode)
    print("Child #"..i, "Name: "..xmlNodeGetName(childNode), "Attributes :"..toJSON(attributes))
  end
end

shared

OOP Required

This example loads an XML string and loops the children while outputting to debugscript.

local rootNode = XML.loadstring("<animals test='x'><wolf name='timmy'></wolf> <fox name='luxy'></fox></animals>")

if rootNode then
  local rootAttributes = rootNode.attributes
  print("Root Node", "Name: "..rootNode.name,  "Attributes :"..toJSON(rootAttributes))

  local children = rootNode.children

  for i, childNode in ipairs(children) do
    local attributes = childNode.attributes
    print("Child #"..i, "Name: "..childNode.name, "Attributes :"..toJSON(attributes))
  end
end

See Also

XML Functions

• xmlCopyFile
• xmlCreateChild
• xmlCreateFile
• xmlDestroyNode
• xmlFindChild
• xmlLoadFile
• xmlLoadString
• xmlNodeGetAttribute
• xmlNodeGetAttributes
• xmlNodeGetChildren
• xmlNodeGetName
• xmlNodeGetParent
• xmlNodeGetValue
• xmlNodeSetAttribute
• xmlNodeSetName
• xmlNodeSetValue
• xmlSaveFile
• xmlUnloadFile

XML Elements

• xmlnode

Reference

• Scripting Functions