Function xml.parse()

Parses xml string.

XmlElement xml.parse(xmlstring)

Parameters

• string xmlstring string to parse

Return value

XmlElement

Consecutive spaces are trimmed to single space.

XmlElement Members

• string name name of the node

log(xml.parse("<note>something</note>").name) -- note

• string text text content of the node (excluding the contents of child nodes)

local data = xml.parse("<note>something <big>really</big> good</note>")
log(data.text) -- something good

• string/nil attr(string name) returns the value of a single attribute; if the attribute doesn't exists, ruturns nil

local data = xml.parse('<note from="ann" to="bob">hello</note>')
log(data.attr("from")) -- ann

• table attr() returns all attributes as a table

local data = xml.parse('<note from="ann" to="bob">hello</note>')
local attrs = data.attr()
logf("%s -> %s", attrs.from, attrs["to"]) -- ann -> bob

• XmlElement child(string name) returns first child node with given name

local data = [[
  <papers>
    <book>Bible</book>
    <magazine>Automoto Revue</magazine>
    <book>Quran</book>
  </papers>
]]
local parsed = xml.parse(data)
log(parsed.child("book").text) -- Bible

Usage

local badnode = "<note>".."3<5".."</note>" local goodnode = "<note>"..xml.escape("3<5").."</note>" log(tostring(xml.check(badnode))) -- false log(tostring(xml.check(goodnode))) -- true

See also

• xml.escape() to xml-escape string