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XML.ExtractText

Extracts the text from the XML tree.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
XML 7.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "XML.ExtractText"; XML { ; Flags } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
XML The XML to process.
Can be XML as text or the reference returned by XML.Parse function, so you can make several times changes to the XML without parsing it each time.
"<test>Hello</test>"
Flags Various Flags.
Add 1 to ignore errors in xml and continue parsing. This may lead to not everything in the xml being read.
0 Optional

Result

Returns text or error.

Description

Extracts the text from the XML tree.
Returns a list with texts from all sub nodes.

Examples

Extracts text:

MBS( "XML.ExtractText"; "<Person><FirstName>Markus</FirstName><LastName>Müller</LastName><City>New York</City></Person>")

Example result:
Markus
Müller
New York

Custom function to get xml value as text:

GetXMLValue(xml, name)

# returns text of a xml node

Let ([
part = MBS( "XML.SubTree"; xml; name);
result = If( MBS("IsError"); ""; If(Length(part) = 0; ""; MBS( "XML.ExtractText"; part)))
]; Trim( result))

Extract text with intermediate XML node:

MBS( "XML.ExtractText"; "<Person>Hello<br/>World</Person>")

See also

Release notes

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Created 26th December 2016, last changed 7th May 2021


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