There is an old utillity called xmltoolbox that has a function called xml_parse and compiled it with pcode which wont work on newer versions of matlab. I'm looking for something with this functionality
How to read in an xml file created by c#
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I have an xml file, I would like to read it into matlab as a struct. The problem is, I know very little about xml. I know that the header file is supposed to define what it is
<xs:schema id="Blah" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xs:element name="Blah" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:Locale="en-US">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="treeItemsx" msdata:Locale="en-US">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="ItemID" type="xs:int" />
<xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Type" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="FolderID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Matlab can tranlate this but the problem is it cant translate entries like this:
<xs:unique name="_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI_Constraint1" msdata:ConstraintName="Constraint1" msdata:PrimaryKey="true">
<xs:selector xpath=".//_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI" />
<xs:field xpath="Name" />
</xs:unique>
I have tried xmlread and it fails on a file like this. I would like to be able to read a non-java xml file.
I would also be happy with being able to read sections of the file by reading it as a text file, but I am unsure how to do this.
Answers (1)
Nikhil Vyas
on 25 Apr 2016
If you provide proper starting and ending tags, it works properly with xmlread. I modified your first xml and added the second xml to the complexType section of the first. Here:
<xs:schema id="Blah" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xs:element name="Blah" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:Locale="en-US">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element name="treeItemsx" msdata:Locale="en-US">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="ItemID" type="xs:int" />
<xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Type" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="FolderID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
<xs:element name="Value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
</xs:sequence>
<xs:unique name="_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI_Constraint1" msdata:ConstraintName="Constraint1" msdata:PrimaryKey="true">
<xs:selector xpath=".//_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI" />
<xs:field xpath="Name" />
</xs:unique>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
You can read the above with xmlread.
docX = xmlread('test.xml');
To test if it's working properly:
xmlwrite(docX)
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