XMLExtractString (Function)

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XMLExtractString (Function)

In french: XMLExtraitChaîne

Extracts the content of a tag found in an XML document. To perform more complex searches, use XMLDocument and XMLFind.

In the XML code, the list of attributes is sorted in alphabetical order.

Example

// Load the XML code
XMLSource is string = fLoadText("example.xml")
Result1 is string
i is int = 1

// Extract the XML code found in the first "<operation>" tag
Result1 = XMLExtractString(XMLSource, "operation", i)
WHILE Result1 <> ""
	Trace(Result1)
	i = i + 1
	// Extract the XML code found in the next "<operation>" tag
	Result1 = XMLExtractString(XMLSource, "operation", i)
END

Syntax

<Result> = XMLExtractString(<XML code> , <Tag> [, <Subscript> [, <Search options>]])

<Result>: Character string

Tag content.
Empty string (""):
if the tag is not found
if the tag does contains no XML code.

<XML code>: Character string

XML code containing the tag.
This code must be in ANSI format.

<Tag>: Character string

Name of tag whose content will be extracted.

<Subscript>: Optional integer

Index of tag (if the tag appears several times in the XML code). This parameter is set to 1 by default.

<Search options>: Optional constant

Search options for the extraction:
XMLExact
(Default value) The tag name is case sensitive for the search.
XMLIgnoreCase The tag name is not case sensitive for the search.

Business / UI classification: Business Logic

Component: wd300xml.dll