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  • TheEndless's avatar
    TheEndless
    Channel Surfer
    15 years ago
    I'm not sure what you mean by "weird thing" but...

    The part before the colon (media) is the namespace as defined by the "xmlns:media" attribute. It's essentially a way of making a common tag name unique, and associate it with a specific data source. I haven't parsed an XML document with namespaces in BrightScript, but I'd think you would be able to get it with GetNamedElements().

    The values I think you're talking about (url, width, and height) are attribute values. You'd access them using @. (ex. xmlElement@url, xmlElement@width, etc). There are examples in the "working with XML" section of the BrightScript reference.
  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    15 years ago
    "jbrave" wrote:
    Anyone know how to get and parse an xml tag that has a colon in it like this:

    <media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://something.something.com/mrss/' url='http://blahblablah.com' width='72' height='72' />


    • To access elements with namespaces, use elementArray = GetNamedElements("media:thumbnail")

    • To access attributes without namespaces, you can use the @ operator. element@url

    • For attributes with namespaces, you would need to say element.GetAttributes()["xmlns:media"]
  • jbrave's avatar
    jbrave
    Channel Surfer
    15 years ago
    By weird I meant I hadn't encountered this style of before in the parsing projects I've undertaken. Anyway, got it working using GetNamedElements("media:thumbnail") and then GetAttributes()

    Thanks!

    - Joel