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goodonpaper
Importing XML & displaying text
Nov 4th, 2007, 5:25pm  
import processing.xml.*;
XMLElement xml;

void setup() {
size(600, 600);
}

void draw() {
 background(255,255,255);
 xml = new XMLElement(this, "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/tag/toptags.xml");
 

...


}
}

I'm having trouble finding a way to get the XML to display as text that I can format & style - all the examples I'm finding are for pulling values and manipulating them as values for objects. Any ideas?
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mflux
Re: Importing XML & displaying text
Reply #1 - Nov 5th, 2007, 4:34am  
Quote:
all the examples I'm finding are for pulling values


And then display them?

That's what the xml library is for. Pulling values. Displaying them is up to you. There is no generalized way to display information from XML.

If you're still confused...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml
Quote:
Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet.[2] It is used both to encode documents and serialize data.


So you have to parse (in this case Last.fm data it looks like) it manually and extract the information in a way that your own program can make sense of. There isn't an easy answer to your question.
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