Does the XML object actually work?

[lloydwood]

Hello,

I'm trying to read an XML with the XML object but I'm getting unexpected results. I'm using the following code to read in the XML and then create an XML object.

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        function parseXML(path)
        {
            var xml_file = new File(path);
            xml_file.open ("r", "XML");
            var lines = xml_file.read();
            xml_file.close();
            
            return new XML(lines);
        }

That actual XML is very simple and looks like this:

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<RootNode>
      <Project></Project>
</RootNode>

If I run the command:

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xml.RootNode;

according to the docs I should get "Project" back but I get nothing. If I call length() on the returned list I get 0. I tried running the code with a string too instead of reading the file and got the same result. Does this mean the XML object ins't working or is it something I'm doing wrong?

[lloydwood]

I've now actually bypassed this and used a command line python script to parse the XML. It gives me more flexibility anyway.