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Class | XMLElement

Name

### getChild()

Examples

    // The following short XML file called "sites.xml" is parsed
    // in the code below. It must be in the project's "data" directory
    // <?xml version="1.0"?>
    // <websites>
    //   <site id="0" url="processing.org">Processing</site>
    //   <site id="1" url="mobile.processing.org">Processing Mobile</site>
    // </websites>

    XMLElement xml;

    void setup() {
      size(200, 200);
      xml = new XMLElement(this, "sites.xml");
      XMLElement kid = xml.getChild(0);
      String site = kid.getContent();
      println(site);
    }

    void setup() {
      // Download RSS feed of news stories from yahoo.com
      String url = "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories";
      XMLElement rss = new XMLElement(this, url);
      // Get the <description> element from inside <channel>
      XMLElement desc = rss.getChild("channel/description");
      println(desc.getContent());
    }

Description | Returns the child XMLElement as specified by the index parameter. The value of the index parameter must be less than the total number of children to avoid going out of the array storing the child elements. When the path parameter is specified, then it will return all children that match that path. The path is a series of elements and sub-elements, separated by slashes.

Syntax

    xml.getChild(index)
    xml.getChild(path)

Parameters

xml | any variable of type XMLElement
index | int: the element
path | String: path to a particular element

Returns | XMLElement
Usage | Web & Application
Related | XMLElement_getChildCount() XMLElement_getChildren()

Updated on August 30, 2010 04:29:39pm EDT