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Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

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Demonstrates how to deal with XML where child elements may have identical tags. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

; This example will get the phoneNumber's and groupMembershihpInfo's from the following XML:

; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
; <someEntries>
;     <entry>
;         <id>123</id>
;         <updated>2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</updated>
;         <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2017-07-19T05:19:57.761Z</app:edited>
;         <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
;         <title>George Costanza</title>
;          <gd:name>
;             <gd:fullName>George Costanza</gd:fullName>
;             <gd:givenName>George</gd:givenName>
;             <gd:familyName>Costanza</gd:familyName>
;         </gd:name>
;         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home">(555) 123-4567</gd:phoneNumber>
;         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile">(555) 444-8877</gd:phoneNumber>
;         <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work">(555) 678-1111</gd:phoneNumber>
;         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/123"/>
;         <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/456"/>
;     </entry>
; </someEntries>
; 

$oXml = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")

$bSuccess = $oXml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml")

Local $iNumPhoneNumbers = $oXml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:phoneNumber")
Local $i = 0
While $i < $iNumPhoneNumbers
Local $oXPhoneNumber = $oXml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:phoneNumber",$i)
    ConsoleWrite($oXPhoneNumber.Content & @CRLF)

    $i = $i + 1
Wend
ConsoleWrite("----" & @CRLF)

Local $iNumGroupMemberships = $oXml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo")
$i = 0
While $i < $iNumGroupMemberships
Local $oXMembership = $oXml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo",$i)
    ConsoleWrite($oXMembership.GetAttrValue("href") & @CRLF)

    $i = $i + 1
Wend