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

• xmlnode|false: xmlnode

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

Code Examples

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

See Also

XML Functions

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

XML Elements

• xmlnode

Reference

• Scripting Functions