parse(String) -- parse XML

Synopsis

• Function: parse

• Usage:

  parse s

• Inputs:
  • s, a string,
• Optional inputs:
  • Trim => ..., default value true
• Outputs:
  • an instance of the type XMLnode, a tree of hash tables resulting from parsing the contents of s as XML

Description

i1 : x = parse ///<foo a="hi there">ho there<bar/></foo>///

o1 = <foo a="hi there"
       "ho there"
       <bar

o1 : XMLnode

i2 : peek'_3 x

o2 = XMLnode{"a" => "hi there"                              }
             children => {"ho there", XMLnode{tag => "bar"}}
             tag => "foo"

i3 : x#"a"

o3 = hi there

i4 : x.children

o4 = {ho there, <bar}

o4 : List

i5 : class \ oo

o5 = {String, XMLnode}

o5 : List

i6 : x.tag

o6 = foo