Extensions.Xml.GetXmlElementText

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Classification

Name GetXmlElementText
Short Description Returns the text of an XML element
Class Term
Extension OTX Xml extension
Group Xml related Terms
Exceptions -
Checker Rules -
Standard Compliant Yes

OTL Syntax

StringTerm Xml.GetXmlElementText(XmlElementTerm eElement);

Description

The GetXmlElementText term returns the text of an XML element as a String. If no text is available an empty string is returned. Escaped special characters shall be unescaped.

If the element contains CDATA's the returned string contains the content of the CDATA section as it is. If the element contains multiple text and/or CDATA nodes, the returned String is the concatenation of all these nodes.

Return Value

The Term returns the value, see table below.

Icons Note.png In OTX, Terms are categorized according to its return data type!
Data Type Description
String The text of an XML element.

Properties

Name Data Type Class Default Cardinality Description
Element XmlElement Term - [1..1] The XmlElement object, to which the operation is applied.

OTL Examples

/// Local Declarations

Xml.XmlElement XmlElement1;
String String1 = "";

/// Flow

XmlElement1 = Xml.CreateXmlElement("root", "abc");
String1 = Xml.GetXmlElementText(XmlElement1);

See also

CopyXmlElement
CreateXmlDocument
CreateXmlElement
GetXmlElementAttributes
GetXmlElementChildElements
GetXmlElementName
GetXmlElementsByXPath
GetXmlRootElement
XmlFromByteField
XmlLoadFromFile
XmlToByteField