I’m stuck on getting the values in some multiple child nodes in xml… trying to base the code on the sample at http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/7011-how-to-read-in-data-from-an-xml-file .
I’m getting the list of prompts that I need, but I can’t get the list of answers: one way I’ve tried gets the first answer only for each question, three times; another try (commented out) gave blanks for the answers. Am I missing something basic in how to set up the inner repeat loop, or the syntax for getting the answers in revXMLNodeContents? My xml file looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <quiz> <items> <item> <prompt>What is the capital of Russia?</prompt> <answers> <answer>Moscow.</answer> <answer>Omsk.</answer> <answer>Tomsk.</answer> </answers> </item> <item> <prompt>How's the weather?</prompt> <answers> <answer>Pretty cold.</answer> <answer>Not bad.</answer> <answer>Too hot.</answer> </answers> </item> </items> </quiz> Here’s what the command is like now: private command processQuizTree pTree local tItems put revXMLChildNames(pTree, "quiz/items", return, "item", true) into tItems answer "tItems is" && tItems --answer "tItems[1] is " & tItems[1] --answer "line 1 of tItems is " & line 1 of tItems local tListOfPrompts repeat for each line tItem in tItems put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, "quiz/items/" & tItem & "/prompt") into tCurrentPrompt answer "tCurrentPrompt is " & tCurrentPrompt put tCurrentPrompt & return after tListOfPrompts --get the child names of the <answers> node put revXMLChildNames(pTree, "quiz/items/item/answers", return, "answer", true) into tAnswers answer "tAnswers is" && tAnswers local tListOfAnswers repeat for each line tAnswer in tAnswers --gets first answer only, 3 times?? put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, "quiz/items/" & tItem & tAnswer & "/answers/answer") into tCurrentAnswer answer "tCurrentAnswer is " & tCurrentAnswer put tCurrentAnswer & return after tListOfAnswers --gets blank item? 3 times --put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, "quiz/items/" & tItem & tAnswer & "/answers") into tCurrentAnswer --answer "tCurrentAnswer is " & tCurrentAnswer --put tCurrentAnswer & return after tListOfAnswers end repeat end repeat delete the last char of tListOfItems --trailing return answer "tListOfPrompts is" && tListOfPrompts answer "tListOfAnswers is" && tListOfAnswers end processQuizTree -thanks for any help - Curt _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode