A programming language? First, XML is a format to represent data. It has originally be designed for this data to be essentially text documents or messages, but nothing prevents you from representing any data you wish, including programs. There at least three big examples of programs expressed in XML that come to mind: XSLT is a Turing-complete language whose only standard format … Read more
select the attributes by using the @ to distinghish attributes from elements. Tested on xslfiddle.net xsl xml result
I am new to XML and I am trying to understand the basics. I read the line below in “Learning XML”, but it is still not clear, for me. Can someone point me to a book or website which explains these basics clearly? From Learning XML: The XML declaration describes some of the most general properties … Read more
I am getting Java exception like: My program is trying to parse an XML string by using: The XML string contains: Any suggestions about what is causing this error?
Based on your update: since apparently you have no code to add for a Locations element, you could shorten your code by changing: to: and then doing:
Instead of checking if child.find(‘EmentaMateria’).text is not None, you should make sure that child.find(‘EmentaMateria’) is not None first. Also, you should store the returning value of child.find(‘EmentaMateria’) to avoid calling it twice. Lastly, you should assign ementa a default value if child.find(‘EmentaMateria’) is None; otherwise your print function below will be referencing an un-initialized variable. Change: to: Alternatively, you can use the built-in function getattr to do the same without a temporary variable:
I’m guessing from your last question, asked 20 minutes before this one, that you are trying to parse (read and convert) the XML found through using GeoNames’ FindNearestAddress. If your XML is in a string variable called txt and looks like this: Then you can parse the XML with Javascript DOM like this: And get specific values from … Read more
Microsoft Excel’s “.xlsx” files are zip files that each contain a set of files. Could someone please provide a link that concisely describes the full structure/syntax/markup/format of the embedded .xml files (the headers are less interesting)? For example, it’s hard to find online explanations on what the c, t, and s elements represent.
You are only looking at the first li child in the query you have instead of looking for any li child element that may contain the text, ‘Model’. What you need is a query like the following: This query will give you the elements that have a class of featureList with one or more li children that contain the text, ‘Model’.
CDATA stands for Character Data and it means that the data in between these strings includes data that could be interpreted as XML markup, but should not be. The key differences between CDATA and comments are: As Richard points out, CDATA is still part of the document, while a comment is not. In CDATA you … Read more