Visual FoxPro

Traverse the XML Tree

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Demonstrates how to traverse all nodes in an XML tree.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loXml
LOCAL loSbState

lnSuccess = 0

* Use the NextInTraversal2 method to traverse all nodes in the XML tree rooted at the caller.

loXml = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')

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

* This is the XML traversed in this example:

* <pig-rescue>
*   <herd name="Cathy">
* 	<species name="pot belly pig">
* 	    <animal>
* 	        <name>Molly II</name>
* 	        <birth>February, 1998</birth>
* 			<in-date>January, 2000</in-date>
* 			<from>Middle Ave.</from>
* 			<gender spay-neuter="yes">F</gender>
* 			<info>Molly came from a place where an old, ill man had too many animals.
* 	              	The animals were seldom fed and rats would eat the newborn piglets.
* 	             	 When Molly was found at one week old, she was the only piglet of 
* 	              	her siblings who did not get stepped on by a cow. She is a sweet, 
* 	              	friendly pig who likes to hang out on Cathy's porch on the lounge 
* 	              	pad.
* 			</info>
* 		</animal>
* 	    <animal>
* 			<name>Nigel</name>
* 			<birth>June, 1991</birth>
* 			<in-date>August, 1991</in-date>
* 			<from>Breeder</from>
* 			<gender spay-neuter="no">M</gender>
* 			<info>
* 			 	Nigel was the first pig and the reason for the rescue in the
* 			 	first place. He is 13 now and doing well, but takes a number 
* 				of medications, as you can see below.
* 			</info>
* 		</animal>		
* 	</species>
*   </herd>
* </pig-rescue>

* The sbState is an object used to keep track of the current state of the traversal.
loSbState = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
DO WHILE loXml.NextInTraversal2(loSbState) <> 0

    ? loXml.Tag
    ? loXml.TagPath
    ? ""

ENDDO

* Produces the following output:

* herd
* herd
* 
* species
* herd|species
* 
* animal
* herd|species|animal[0]
* 
* name
* herd|species|animal[0]|name
* 
* birth
* herd|species|animal[0]|birth
* 
* in-date
* herd|species|animal[0]|in-date
* 
* from
* herd|species|animal[0]|from
* 
* gender
* herd|species|animal[0]|gender
* 
* info
* herd|species|animal[0]|info
* 
* animal
* herd|species|animal[1]
* 
* name
* herd|species|animal[1]|name
* 
* birth
* herd|species|animal[1]|birth
* 
* in-date
* herd|species|animal[1]|in-date
* 
* from
* herd|species|animal[1]|from
* 
* gender
* herd|species|animal[1]|gender
* 
* info
* herd|species|animal[1]|info
* 

RELEASE loXml
RELEASE loSbState