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Name

### XMLElement

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");
      int numSites = xml.getChildCount();
      for (int i = 0; i < numSites; i++) {
        XMLElement kid = xml.getChild(i);
        int id = kid.getInt("id");
        String url = kid.getString("url");
        String site = kid.getContent();
        println(id + " : " + url + " : " + site);
      }
    }

Description | XMLElement is a representation of an XML object. The object is able to parse XML code. The methods described here are the most basic. More are documented in the Developer's Reference. The encoding parameter inside XML files is ignored, only UTF-8 (or plain ASCII) are parsed properly.

Methods

getChildCount() | Returns the number of children for the element.
getChild() | Returns a single child.
getChildren() | Returns all of the children as an XMLElement array.
getContent() | Returns the content of an element
getInt() | Returns an integer attribute of the element.
getFloat() | Returns a float attribute of the element.
getString() | Returns a String attribute of the element.
getName() | Returns the name of the element.

Constructor

    XML(parent, file)

Parameters

parent | PApplet: typically use "this"
file | String: name of the XML file to load

Usage | Web & Application

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