xmlread - Read XML document and return Document Object Model node - MATLAB (original) (raw)

Read XML document and return Document Object Model node

Syntax

Description

DOMnode = xmlread([filename](#mw%5F8979f41c-e051-4cda-b935-6c907d870387)) reads the specified XML file and returns an Apache® Xerces-J document object representing a parsed version of the XML file. Apache Xerces-J implements the Java® API for XML Processing (JAXP). Use JAXP functions to manipulate this document object. For more information on Apache Xerces-J, see https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/apiDocs/.

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DOMnode = xmlread([filename](#mw%5F8979f41c-e051-4cda-b935-6c907d870387),'AllowDoctype',tf) also specifies whether DOCTYPE declarations are permitted. If tf isfalse, reading an input XML file containing DOCTYPE declarations results in an error. Otherwise, xmlread returns an outputDOMnode for the XML file. The default value of tf istrue.

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Examples

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Examine the contents of a sample XML file and then read the XML file into a Document Object Model (DOM) node.

Display the contents of the file sample.xml.

sampleXMLfile = 'sample.xml'; type(sampleXMLfile)

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Read the XML file into a DOM node.

DOMnode = xmlread(sampleXMLfile);

Create a parsing function to read an XML file into a MATLAB® structure, and then read a sample XML file into the MATLAB workspace.

To create the function parseXML, copy and paste this code into an m-file parseXML.m. The parseXML function parses data from an XML file into a MATLAB structure array with fields Name,Attributes, Data, andChildren.

function theStruct = parseXML(filename) % PARSEXML Convert XML file to a MATLAB structure. try tree = xmlread(filename); catch error('Failed to read XML file %s.',filename); end

% Recurse over child nodes. This could run into problems % with very deeply nested trees. try theStruct = parseChildNodes(tree); catch error('Unable to parse XML file %s.',filename); end

% ----- Local function PARSECHILDNODES ----- function children = parseChildNodes(theNode) % Recurse over node children. children = []; if theNode.hasChildNodes childNodes = theNode.getChildNodes; numChildNodes = childNodes.getLength; allocCell = cell(1, numChildNodes);

children = struct( ... 'Name', allocCell, 'Attributes', allocCell, ... 'Data', allocCell, 'Children', allocCell);

for count = 1:numChildNodes
    theChild = childNodes.item(count-1);
    children(count) = makeStructFromNode(theChild);
end

end

% ----- Local function MAKESTRUCTFROMNODE ----- function nodeStruct = makeStructFromNode(theNode) % Create structure of node info.

nodeStruct = struct( ... 'Name', char(theNode.getNodeName), ... 'Attributes', parseAttributes(theNode), ... 'Data', '', ... 'Children', parseChildNodes(theNode));

if any(strcmp(methods(theNode), 'getData')) nodeStruct.Data = char(theNode.getData); else nodeStruct.Data = ''; end

% ----- Local function PARSEATTRIBUTES ----- function attributes = parseAttributes(theNode) % Create attributes structure.

attributes = []; if theNode.hasAttributes theAttributes = theNode.getAttributes; numAttributes = theAttributes.getLength; allocCell = cell(1, numAttributes); attributes = struct('Name', allocCell, 'Value', ... allocCell);

for count = 1:numAttributes attrib = theAttributes.item(count-1); attributes(count).Name = char(attrib.getName); attributes(count).Value = char(attrib.getValue); end end

Use the parseXML function to parse the sample fileinfo.xml into a MATLAB structure.

sampleXMLfile = 'info.xml'; mlStruct = parseXML(sampleXMLfile)

mlStruct = struct with fields: Name: 'productinfo' Attributes: [1x2 struct] Data: '' Children: [1x13 struct]

Input Arguments

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File name, specified as a character vector or string scalar containing the name of the local file or URL.

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced before R2006a