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Ladle
Parsing XML with simpleML
Jan 21st, 2010, 6:59am  
Hello hello, I am having trouble getting hold of a particular bit of data from an xml file, I have been able to retrieve arrays of recurring tags  ok, but this bit is coded slightly differently in the xml and I think its stopping my code from working.
The bit of xml I'm struggling with is here:
Code:
			<author>nobody@cagd.leedsmet.ac.uk (Josephine Payne)</author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://cagd.leedsmet.ac.uk/show.php?ref=078501_87da0c</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">cagd.leedsmet.ac.uk/3000002/078501_87da0c</guid>
		</item>
		<item>
			<title>page3</title>
			<description><![CDATA[

<p>Josephine Payne posted an image.</p>
<p>
						<img src="http://cagd.leedsmet.ac.uk/media/8/078501_dc4539_m.jpg?r=2121155869">
						</p>
]]></description>


I'm after this bit: <img src="http://cagd.leedsmet.ac.uk/media/8/078501_dc4539_m.jpg?r=2121155869">
..but I dont seem to be able to grab it like a normal attribute. - Should I resort to parsing through the full html for this(there are many links like this one)?

I am using the simpleML library. Thanks!
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PhiLho 
Re: Parsing XML with simpleML
Reply #1 - Jan 21st, 2010, 9:07am  
I don't know simpleML, but I see the img isn't XML but HTML (it isn't closed). Actually, it is declared in a CDATA section, which allows to use free, unescaped text as a whole block. So you have to get this text and parse it in another way, from indexOf to regular expressions.
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Ladle
Re: Parsing XML with simpleML
Reply #2 - Jan 21st, 2010, 9:12am  
Ok thanks I'll do that, thank you. L.
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