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wlwest82's avatar
wlwest82
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12 years ago

XML Orphaned Text

I'm having trouble getting some text out of parsed XML. For the most part, everything I need is visible as I walk through the xml, but in the following instance, I can't get to the text. Let's say I h...
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EnTerr's avatar
EnTerr
Roku Guru
12 years ago
"EnTerr" wrote:
... Simplifying the BRS example even more:
BrightScript Debugger> x = CreateObject("roXMLElement")
BrightScript Debugger> x.parse("<xml> foo <tag> bar </tag> qux </xml>")
BrightScript Debugger> ? x.genXML(false)
<xml><tag> bar </tag></xml>
genXML should have reconstituted (more or less) the original but seems Foo and Qux have been lost in translation. Even Foo, that should've been the getText() to <xml>. Bugs?

Somebody with Roku* name, please respond: How are such text handled with roXML?

Here is another example snippet ( http://www.xmlnews.org/docs/xml-basics.html#elements 😞
<p><person>Tony Blair</person> is <function>Prime Minister</function> of <location><country>Great Britain</country></location></p>



The texts in question are " is " and " of ". Where them at, after roXMLelement.parse()?

PS. for real-life examples, try NITF format of the news industry. E.g. http://www.iptc.org/std/NITF/3.2/exampl ... ishing.xml , <body.content> element