Hello

I uploaded the proXML lib, it allows Processing to read and write XML files. You can build a XML document by putting together different elements, or you can load an XML element from a certain url. When you have the XML-element filled with content you can save it as XML document.

Give it a try:

www.texone.org/proxml

Can I load XMLs from different sites then mine?

the simplest way of redirecting an xml file through php is just to use readfile();

<?php
readfile ('http://www.externalsiteurl.com/monkeys.xml');
?>

Not sure if this is relevant, as I don't have a clue if this is allowed by the xml specifications.

I was using capital letters in the attribute names. proXML could not find any of these using getAttribute(), getIntAttribute() etc. So I had to change all to lower case which made it a little bit harder to read the attribute names.

Similar thing seems to be when reading strings from attributes. proXML ignores uppercase and prints it out as lowercase.

I'm getting an unexpected result with getAttribute, maybe you can have a look at it: I have several siblings who have an the same attribute value-- pos="c". I am trying to write an if statement to identify this attribute:

Code:

println(playerRef.getAttribute("pos"));
 if (playerRef.getAttribute("pos")=="c") {
println("*");
    }  
 

This code generates a bunch of 'c's, but no asterisks. It looks as though the statement should be true, but it always comes up false.

I tried the following code, to see if I could figure out where the problem was occuring:
Code:

println(playerRef.getAttribute("pos"));

    if (playerRef.getAttribute("pos") == playerRef.getParent().getChild(0).getAttribute("pos")) {
println("*");
    }  
 

Basically, comparing the attribute against the first child's attribute. This generates the following output:

Code:

c
*
c
c
c
c
 

Even though all the attributes are the same, it treats only the first one as a match. Any suggestions you have on why this isn't working for me would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the great work.

hey, i'm a noob to processing so please be gentle...

i have a MySQL database back-end which i'm accessing from flash & Processing by having PHP spit out XML. i've gotten this to work with flash fine & it works with processing using proXML when i run it in the IDE, buuuut, i get the following error when trying to run it in firefox:

proxml.InvalidDocumentException: http://my.remote.server/project/xml.php is not a parsable URL

is this a java applet security thing perhaps or am i just missing something here?

thanks in advance.

thanks tex. i was trying to load the applet locally on my machine which had security probs, but it works fine on the server. turns out that the applet can actually access any files on the same server. the directory structure doesn't matter. my xml.php file is in one branch of the document root & the applet is in a completely diferent branch off of the root & they both work fine now. cheers!