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XML.NodeCount

Counts nodes with given name.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
XML 7.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "XML.NodeCount"; XML; Name { ; 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 queries to the XML without parsing it each time.
"<test>Hello</test>"
Name The name of the node to query.
This can be a list to go over several steps to the target tree part.
"something"
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 number or error.

Description

Counts nodes with given name.
Only the top nodes in the XML and not sub nodes down the hierarchy.
Does not count root node, only first level of children.

Examples

Query node count:

MBS( "XML.NodeCount"; "<Items><ID>1</ID><ID>3</ID><ID>5</ID></Items>"; "ID")

Example result: 3

See also

Release notes

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This function checks for a license.

Created 2nd January 2017, last changed 3th August 2020


XML.ListAttributes - XML.NodeNames