Reading XML

[Arfur9]

Hi I'm new to AutoIt and I was hoping I could get a little bit of help

I'm building a form application which creates batch files for a renderer, so far things are going well but I'm stuck on one thing.

I need to look for cameras in a XML file and the user be able to select a camera from a list

in the XML the line looks like:

<Object Identifier="./Cameras/Scene 1" Label="Pinhole Camera" Name="Scene 1" Type="Camera">

"Scene 1" being the camera

There can be any amount of cameras in a scene,

If you need the actual xml

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26539256/batchtool/Untitled.xml

I'd be grateful for any help

if your interested the batch file creator is going to be a AutoIt version of this, I've got all the scene input, save, run done

[Zedna]

#include <String.au3>

$xml = FileRead('untitled.xml')

 $objects = StringRegExp($xml, '<Object(.*?)Type="Camera">', 3)
ConsoleWrite('Number of cameras in XML: ' & UBound($objects) & @CRLF)

For $i = 0 To UBound($objects) - 1
    $object = $objects[$i]
;~   ConsoleWrite('object: ' & $object & @CRLF)
    $name = GetValue($object, 'Name')
    ConsoleWrite('camera name: ' & $name & @CRLF)
Next

Func GetValue($xml_data, $name_col)
    Return StringBetween($xml_data, $name_col & '="', '"')
EndFunc

Func StringBetween($sString, $sStart, $sEnd)
    $sReturn = _StringBetween($sString, $sStart, $sEnd) ;, -1, 1)
    If @error Then Return ''
    Return StringStripWS($sReturn[0],3)
EndFunc

EDIT:

output

Number of cameras in XML: 2

camera name: ## Current View ##

camera name: Scene 1

Edited April 15, 2012 by Zedna

[ProgAndy]

Hello,

I suppose you should be able to get your data with a regular expression:

$text = '<Object Identifier="./Cameras/Scene 1" Label="Pinhole Camera" Name="Scene 1" Type="Camera">'
$aCameraList = StringRegExp($text, '(?i)<Objecth+Identifier="([^"]+)"h+Label="([^"]+)"h+Name="([^"]+)"h+Type="Camera"h*>', 4)
For $i = 0 To UBound($aCameraList)-1
    $aCamera = $aCameraList[$i]
    MsgBox(0, "", "ID: " & $aCamera[1] & @CRLF & "Label: " & $aCamera[2] & @CRLF & "Name: " & $aCamera[3])
Next

[Arfur9]

Thank you for the quick replies! Both examples are awesome