4D v13.4
DOM EXPORT TO VAR
- 4D Language Reference
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- XML DOM
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- Overview of XML DOM Commands
- DOM Append XML child node
- DOM Append XML element
- DOM CLOSE XML
- DOM Count XML attributes
- DOM Count XML elements
- DOM Create XML element
- DOM Create XML element arrays
- DOM Create XML Ref
- DOM EXPORT TO FILE
- DOM EXPORT TO VAR
- DOM Find XML element
- DOM Find XML element by ID
- DOM Get first child XML element
- DOM Get last child XML element
- DOM Get next sibling XML element
- DOM Get parent XML element
- DOM Get previous sibling XML element
- DOM Get Root XML element
- DOM GET XML ATTRIBUTE BY INDEX
- DOM GET XML ATTRIBUTE BY NAME
- DOM GET XML CHILD NODES
- DOM Get XML document ref
- DOM Get XML element
- DOM GET XML ELEMENT NAME
- DOM GET XML ELEMENT VALUE
- DOM Get XML information
- DOM Insert XML element
- DOM Parse XML source
- DOM Parse XML variable
- DOM REMOVE XML ATTRIBUTE
- DOM REMOVE XML ELEMENT
- DOM SET XML ATTRIBUTE
- DOM SET XML DECLARATION
- DOM SET XML ELEMENT NAME
- DOM SET XML ELEMENT VALUE
DOM EXPORT TO VAR
| DOM EXPORT TO VAR ( elementRef ; vXmlVar ) | ||||||||
| Parameter | Type | Description | ||||||
| elementRef | String |
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Root XML element reference | |||||
| vXmlVar | Text, BLOB |
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Variable to receive XML tree | |||||
The DOM EXPORT TO VAR command saves an XML tree in a text or BLOB variable.
Pass the root element reference to export in elementRef.
Pass the name of the variable that must contain the XML tree in vXmlVar. This variable must either be a Text or BLOB type. You can select the type depending on what you plan on doing next or the size that the tree can reach (remember that when not in Unicode mode, Text type variables are limited to 32 K of text, whereas in Unicode mode, this limit is 2 GB).
Keep in mind that if you use a Text variable to store elementRef when not in Unicode mode, , it will be encoded using the “current” Mac character set (i.e. Mac Roman on most Western systems). This means that the text returned will lose its original encoding (encoding="xxx"). In this case, the vVarXml variable allows you to view or store the code but NOT to generate a valid XML document (using the SEND PACKET command for example).
In Unicode mode, the original encoding is kept in the variable.
In XML, line breaks are not significant regardless of whether they are within or between XML elements. Internally, XML uses standard LF characters as line separators.
During import and export operations, line break characters can be converted. During an import, the XML parser replaces CRLF characters (standard line breaks under Windows) with LF characters. During export, LF characters are replaced by CR characters.
If you want to keep carriage returns, you must include them in an XML CDATA element so that they will not be processed by the XML parser. Instead of CRLF characters, you can also use "<br/>" characters, which are explicit carriage returns that will not be processed by the parser.
This example stores the tree vElemRef in a text variable:
C_TEXT(vtMyText)
DOM EXPORT TO VAR(vElemRef;vtMyText)If the command has been executed correctly, the system variable OK is set to 1. Otherwise, it is set to 0 and an error is generated (for example, if the element reference is invalid).
Product: 4D
Theme: XML DOM
Number:
863
Created: 4D 2004
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