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Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

This function writes data to all types of XML files (e.g. RSS, Atom, and even custom ones). It can write attribute values, change processor settings and process fused tags. It's only around 4kb and works as fast as IniWrite.

For a complete guide on this function including an example, see the XMLWrite-Doc (right-click and choose 'Save As').

This screenshot (from the example) shows something written with this function and viewed in Internet Explorer:

Latest version: 1.08 - Tuesday 30th May 2006

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Rabiator · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 271 Location: Sauerland

Excellent script, same as the ahk-style documentation!
Very useful, thanks, Titan! Cool

netics · Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Korea

how can this be archived!?

great!! titan!

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

garry · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1182 Location: switzerland

hello Titan,
how use the script, try to read :
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/breakfast.xml
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/uk/rss.xml

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

Thanks garry, I looked at those links but they were just other XML files? There is an XML Reader function if thats what you wanted.
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garry · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1182 Location: switzerland

sorry Titan,
I'm not good in mathe and english
XML reader, how use to read http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/breakfast.xml
XMLRead(file, tree, type=0) { ; XMLRead() by Titan - revision 20060226
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Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

XMLRead() and XMLWrite() are quite different so the parameters aren't the same. If you find any bugs with XML Reader please report it in its thread.
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garry · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 1182 Location: switzerland

no bugs, I'm just bad in mathe and programming, I' ll try to read your help doc
once wrote (a bad written) script with listview, put in xy.xml and doubleclick to read
http://autohotkey.net/file/users/Members/garry/BBC1.jpg
http://autohotkey.net/file/users/Members/garry/BBC2.jpg

Ace_NoOne · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 333 Location: Germany

Titan, you're great! (redundancy not intended)
This is a major contribution that will, in combination with your XmlRead function, greatly enhance the potential of AHK!
Once we're sure that this function works as well as XmlRead does, it should be seriously considered to include both functions in the AHK core.

Anyways, I'm still struggling to get it working the way I want it to though - it's more complex than you'd think...
However, that's probably my fault (the British air seems to inhibit my mental functions Razz

), as your documentation is really well-done (great job adopting the AHK doc's style).

One problem is that I can't seem to get the indentation working. I thought I had it for a second, but then I couldn't reproduce it for some reason (see above Surprised

). Could you please post an short example of how it's supposed to be done?
Also, there was at least one instance where the tag name was miraculously followed by a space ("<item >"), but I haven't been able to reproduce that either. (As you might have noticed, my mind is kinda messy at the moment - my apologies for that.)

Anyways, truly an impressive job!

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

Thanks Ace_NoOne Smile

I tested the indentation and it seems to work. Here is an example:

Ace_NoOne · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 333 Location: Germany

I know that an extra space doesn't make the XML invalid, but I'm kinda nit-picky when it comes to that (plus XML is verbose enough already).
Still, it's just a minor issue and I haven't been able to reproduce it yet (might have been caused by something like improper use of parameters in the early learning phase), so don't worry about it unless I discover that it actually is a bug.

As I said, your documentation of this function is very good - it's just the treacherous complexity of XML that makes this kinda difficult, for me at least. Embarassed

I've tried looking at your code to figure out a few things myself, but due to the lack of comments it was quite hard to follow. Yet, as they say, "Real Programmers don't need comments--the code is obvious", so I'll have to live with that. Smile

Anyways, it seems that I'm trying to use the indentation - and maybe even the whole function - other than intended. For example, let's say I got an XML file like this:

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

Ah, there seems to be a problem with how the parser calculates the index of an element. After some testing with your script the parser assumed the following indexes:

root: +1; category: +1; item: +1; root: +1; category: +1; item: -1;
should be: root: +1; category: +1; item: +1; root: 0; category: 0; item: -1;

This is where the problem is in the code but there could be minor issues elsewhere that contributes to this problem.

Ace_NoOne · Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 333 Location: Germany

Thanks for the quick response!

So the way I tried to to it was correct? That's encouraging! Smile

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

In version 1.01 I fixed this minor index bug. It was actually caused by incorrect string trimming if a processor is not present (and not what I said above). The indentation is still not perfect but I'm working on it for the next release.
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