(Visual FoxPro) Parsing XML Children Having Identical Tags

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

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LOCAL loXml
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnNumPhoneNumbers
LOCAL i
LOCAL loXPhoneNumber
LOCAL lnNumGroupMemberships
LOCAL loXMembership

* 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>
* 

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

lnSuccess = loXml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/georgeCostanza.xml")

lnNumPhoneNumbers = loXml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:phoneNumber")
i = 0
DO WHILE i < lnNumPhoneNumbers
    loXPhoneNumber = loXml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:phoneNumber",i)
    ? loXPhoneNumber.Content
    RELEASE loXPhoneNumber
    i = i + 1
ENDDO
? "----"

lnNumGroupMemberships = loXml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo")
i = 0
DO WHILE i < lnNumGroupMemberships
    loXMembership = loXml.GetNthChildWithTag("entry|*:groupMembershipInfo",i)
    ? loXMembership.GetAttrValue("href")
    RELEASE loXMembership
    i = i + 1
ENDDO

RELEASE loXml