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xmlToItems



Function: xmlToItems()

Extracts nodes from a chunk of XML (a string) and creates a list of items - which can be processed just as any list of values in PhixFlow.

Returns null when the extract fails.

Syntax

xmlToItems(XML, XPath)

ArgumentTypeDescription
XMLStringThe full XML data, stored in a string variable.
XPathStringXPath expression to extract data from the XML.
Note : XPath is a w3 standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. For more details see www.w3.org/TR/xpath

Examples

If we add some xml into a $-variable:

do(
   $xml = 
   "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <store>
      <thing category="X1">
         <name>Item1</name>
         <price>15.00</price>
      </thing>
      <thing category="X2">
         <name>Item2</name>
         <price>17.99</price>
      </thing>
   </store>",

   xmlToItems($xml, "/store/thing/price")

)

Returns the values (in a list):

[15.00, 17.99]

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