Microsoft Dynamics Ax

XMLDocument class

XMLDocument class allows to manipulate XML data via DOM.

XMLDocument is a thin wrapper around MSXML in Ax3 and around System.XML .NET framework namespace in Ax4, so use cross refereneces and MSDN to learn about DOM and other stuff.

Example:

static void Test_XML(Args _args)
{
    str xml = @'
        <tests>
            <test>
                <testnumber>1</testnumber>
                <testname>bla bla</testname>
            </test>
           <test>
                <testnumber>3</testnumber>
                <testname>asdf</testname>
           </test>
        </tests>
    ';
    XMlDocument doc=XMLDocument::newXML(xml);
    XMLNodeList tests = doc.selectNodes('//test');
    XMLNode node;
;
    node = tests.nextNode();
    while (node)
    {
        info(node.selectSingleNode('testnumber').text());
        info(node.selectSingleNode('testname').text());
        node = tests.nextNode();
    }
}

[edit]Create a XML Document

You can create you own XML Documents by hand with the XML* Classes. This code creates a XML File with an XML Root element. It has one child element FOO with an attribute BAR. The attributes values is 123. Finally it is stored on C: in file test.xml.

XMLNode         root;
XMLElement      node;
XMLAttribute    attr;
XMLDocument     doc = XMLDOcument::newBlank();
;
 
root = doc.createElement("xml");
doc.appendChild(root);
 
node = doc.createElement("foo");
node.setAttribute("bar","123");
root.appendChild(node);
 
doc.save("C:/test.xml");

The result looks like

<xml>
   <foo bar="123"/>
</xml>