(Visual FoxPro) Find and Update an XML Attribute Value

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Demonstrates how to find an element in XML with a specified attribute name and then update the attribute value.

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LOCAL loXml1
LOCAL loXml2
LOCAL lcPhrase_id
LOCAL lcPhrase_value
LOCAL loSbPath
LOCAL i
LOCAL lnCount_i

* Let's say you have 2 XML files with identical structures as shown directly below,
* and you wish to update the values in the 1st XML file with those in the 2nd XML file.

* <global>
*     <phrase id="2FADisabled" value="2factor authentication disabled"/>
*     <phrase id="2FAEnabled" value="2factor authentication enabled"/>
*     <phrase id="2FAResetFailed" value="Failed to disable two factor authentication"/>
* </global>

* <global>
*     <phrase id="2FAResetFailed" value="Failed to reset two factor authentication"/>
*     <phrase id="2FADisabled" value="2FA authentication disabled"/>
*     <phrase id="2FAEnabled" value="2FA authentication enabled"/>
* </global>

* First, initialize each of the Chilkat XML objects.
* These could be loaded from files, but we'll just create them manually for this example..

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml')
loXml1 = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')
loXml1.Tag = "global"
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase",1,"id","2FADisabled")
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase",1,"value","2factor authentication disabled")
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[1]",1,"id","2FAEnabled")
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[1]",1,"value","2factor authentication enabled")
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[2]",1,"id","2FAResetFailed")
loXml1.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[2]",1,"value","Failed to disable two factor authentication")

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml')
loXml2 = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')
loXml2.Tag = "global"
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase",1,"id","2FAResetFailed")
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase",1,"value","Failed to reset two factor authentication")
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[1]",1,"id","2FADisabled")
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[1]",1,"value","2FA authentication disabled")
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[2]",1,"id","2FAEnabled")
loXml2.UpdateAttrAt("phrase[2]",1,"value","2FA authentication enabled")

* Iterate over attribute values in xml2 and update the same in xml1.

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSbPath = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

i = 0
lnCount_i = loXml2.NumChildrenHavingTag("phrase")
DO WHILE i < lnCount_i
    loXml2.I = i
    lcPhrase_id = loXml2.ChilkatPath("phrase[i]|(id)")
    lcPhrase_value = loXml2.ChilkatPath("phrase[i]|(value)")

    * Notice how the UpdateAttrAt method's 1st argument is a Chilkat path -- which is an expression
    * to find the location of the XML element to be updated.
    * Here we create a path of the form "/A/tagName,attributeName,attributeValuePattern", which means
    * find the direct descendent of xml2 having tag=tagName, with an attribute=attributeName where the attribute value
    * matches the attributeValuePattern.  If attributeValuePattern does not contain a "*", then it must match directly.
    * We'll build a Chilkat path such as "/A/phrase,id,2FADisabled"
    loSbPath.SetString("/A/phrase,id,")
    loSbPath.Append(lcPhrase_id)

    * This assumes the corresponding element exists in xml1.
    loXml1.UpdateAttrAt(loSbPath.GetAsString(),1,"value",lcPhrase_value)

    i = i + 1
ENDDO

* Now see how xml1 has been updated..
? loXml1.GetXml()

* <global>
*     <phrase id="2FADisabled" value="2FA authentication disabled"/>
*     <phrase id="2FAEnabled" value="2FA authentication enabled"/>
*     <phrase id="2FAResetFailed" value="Failed to reset two factor authentication"/>
* </global>

RELEASE loXml1
RELEASE loXml2
RELEASE loSbPath