Xml VB.NET WinRT Reference Documentation

Xml

Current Version: 9.5.0.90

A free non-validating XML parser component with encryption and compression features.

Object Creation

Dim obj As New Chilkat.Xml()

Properties

Cdata
Cdata As Boolean

When True, causes an XML node's content to be encapsulated in a CDATA section.

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Content
Content As String

The content of the XML node. It is the text between the open and close tags, not including child nodes. For example:

<tag1>This is the content</tag1>

<tag2><child1>abc</child1><child2>abc</child2>This is the content</tag2>
Because the child nodes are not included, the content of "tag1" and "tag2" are both equal to "This is the content".

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ContentInt
ContentInt As Integer

Set/get the content as an integer.

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DebugLogFilePath
DebugLogFilePath As String

If set to a file path, causes each Chilkat method or property call to automatically append it's LastErrorText to the specified log file. The information is appended such that if a hang or crash occurs, it is possible to see the context in which the problem occurred, as well as a history of all Chilkat calls up to the point of the problem. The VerboseLogging property can be set to provide more detailed information.

This property is typically used for debugging the rare cases where a Chilkat method call hangs or generates an exception that halts program execution (i.e. crashes). A hang or crash should generally never happen. The typical causes of a hang are:

  1. a timeout related property was set to 0 to explicitly indicate that an infinite timeout is desired,
  2. the hang is actually a hang within an event callback (i.e. it is a hang within the application code), or
  3. there is an internal problem (bug) in the Chilkat code that causes the hang.

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DocType
DocType As String

The DOCTYPE declaration (if any) for the XML document.

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EmitBom
EmitBom As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

If True, then emit the BOM (byte order mark, also known as a preamble) for encodings such as utf-8, utf-16, etc. The defautl value is False. This only applies when writing XML files. It does not apply when getting the XML as a string via the GetXml method.

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EmitCompact
EmitCompact As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

If True, then GetXml and GetXmlSb emit compact XML. The XML emitted has no unnecessary whitespace, incuding no end-of-lines (CR's and/or LF's). The default value is False, which maintains backward compatibility.

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EmitXmlDecl
EmitXmlDecl As Boolean

If True, then the XML declaration is emitted for methods (such as GetXml or SaveXml) where the XML is written to a file or string. The default value of this property is True. If set to False, the XML declaration is not emitted. (The XML declaration is the 1st line of an XML document starting with "<?xml ...".

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Encoding
Encoding As String

This is the encoding attribute in the XML declaration, such as "utf-8" or "iso-8859-1". The default is "utf-8". This property can be set from any node in the XML document and when set, causes the encoding property to be added to the XML declaration. Setting this property does not cause the document to be converted to a different encoding.

Calling any of the LoadXml* methods causes this property to be set to the charset found within the XML, if any. If no charset is specified within the loaded XML, then the LoadXml method resets this property to its default value of "utf-8".

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I
I As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Used in tagPaths (and ChilkatPath). The value of this property is substituted for "i" in "[i]". See the example below..

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IsBase64
IsBase64 As Boolean (ReadOnly)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.76

Returns True if the content contains only those characters allowed in the base64 encoding. A base64 string is composed of characters 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9', '+', '/' and it is often padded at the end with up to two '=', to make the length a multiple of 4. Whitespace is ignored.

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J
J As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Used in tagPaths (and ChilkatPath). The value of this property is substituted for "j" in "[j]". See the example below..

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K
K As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Used in tagPaths (and ChilkatPath). The value of this property is substituted for "k" in "[k]". See the example below..

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LastErrorHtml
LastErrorHtml As String (ReadOnly)

Provides information in HTML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorText
LastErrorText As String (ReadOnly)

Provides information in plain-text format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorXml
LastErrorXml As String (ReadOnly)

Provides information in XML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastMethodSuccess
LastMethodSuccess As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.52

Indicate whether the last method call succeeded or failed. A value of True indicates success, a value of False indicates failure. This property is automatically set for method calls. It is not modified by property accesses. The property is automatically set to indicate success for the following types of method calls:

  • Any method that returns a string.
  • Any method returning a Chilkat object, binary bytes, or a date/time.
  • Any method returning a standard boolean status value where success = True and failure = False.
  • Any method returning an integer where failure is defined by a return value less than zero.

Note: Methods that do not fit the above requirements will always set this property equal to True. For example, a method that returns no value (such as a "void" in C++) will technically always succeed.

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NumAttributes
NumAttributes As Integer (ReadOnly)

The number of attributes. For example, the following node has 2 attributes:

<tag attr1="value1" attr2="value2"> This is the content</tag>

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NumChildren
NumChildren As Integer (ReadOnly)

The number of direct child nodes contained under this XML node.

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SortCaseInsensitive
SortCaseInsensitive As Boolean

If true (or 1 for ActiveX), then all Sort* methods use case insensitive sorting.

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Standalone
Standalone As Boolean

This is the standalone attribute in the XML declaration. This property can be set from any node in the XML document. A value of True adds a standalone="yes" to the XML declaration:

<?xml ... standalone="yes">

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Tag
Tag As String

The XML node's tag, including the namespace prefix.

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TagNsPrefix
TagNsPrefix As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

The node's namespace prefix, if present. For example, if the tag is "soapenv:Envelope", then this property will return "soapenv".

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TagPath
TagPath As String (ReadOnly)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Returns the path to reach this element from the XML document root. If the caller is the document root, then the empty string is returned.

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TagUnprefixed
TagUnprefixed As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

The node's tag without the namespace prefix. For example, if the tag is "soapenv:Envelope", then this property will return "Envelope".

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TreeId
TreeId As Integer (ReadOnly)

Each tree (or XML document) has a unique TreeId. This is the ID of the tree, and can be used to determine if two Xml objects belong to the same tree.

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UncommonOptions
UncommonOptions As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.90

This is a catch-all property to be used for uncommon needs. This property defaults to the empty string and should typically remain empty.

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VerboseLogging
VerboseLogging As Boolean

If set to True, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is False. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

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Version
Version As String (ReadOnly)

Version of the component/library, such as "9.5.0.63"

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Methods

AccumulateTagContent
Function AccumulateTagContent(ByVal tag As String, ByVal skipTags As String) As String

Accumulates the content of all nodes having a specific tag into a single result string. SkipTags specifies a set of subtrees to be avoided. The skipTags are formatted as a string of tags delimited by vertical bar characters. All nodes in sub-trees rooted with a tag appearing in skipTags are not included in the result.

Returns Nothing on failure

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AddAttribute
Function AddAttribute(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As String) As Boolean

Adds an attribute to the calling node in the XML document. Returns True for success, and False for failure.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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AddAttributeInt
Function AddAttributeInt(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As Integer) As Boolean

Adds an integer attribute to a node.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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AddChildTree
Function AddChildTree(ByVal tree As Xml) As Boolean

Adds an entire subtree as a child. If the child was a subtree within another Xml document then the subtree is effectively transferred from one XML document to another.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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AddOrUpdateAttribute
Sub AddOrUpdateAttribute(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As String)

Adds an attribute to an XML node. If an attribute having the specified name already exists, the value is updated.

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AddOrUpdateAttributeI
Sub AddOrUpdateAttributeI(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As Integer)

Adds an integer attribute to an XML node. If an attribute having the specified name already exists, the value is updated.

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AddStyleSheet
Sub AddStyleSheet(ByVal styleSheet As String)

Adds a style sheet declaration to the XML document. The styleSheet should be a string such as:

<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" type="text/css"?>

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AddToAttribute
Sub AddToAttribute(ByVal name As String, ByVal amount As Integer)

Adds an integer amount to an integer attribute's value. If the attribute does not yet exist, this method behaves the same as AddOrUpdateAttributeI.

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AddToChildContent
Sub AddToChildContent(ByVal tag As String, ByVal amount As Integer)

Adds an integer value to the content of a child node.

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AddToContent
Sub AddToContent(ByVal amount As Integer)

Adds an integer amount to the node's content.

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AppendToContent
Function AppendToContent(ByVal str As String) As Boolean

Appends text to the content of an XML node

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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BEncodeContent
Function BEncodeContent(ByVal charset As String, ByVal inData As Byte()) As Boolean

Sets the node's content with 8bit data that is in a specified multibyte character encoding such as utf-8, shift-jis, big5, etc. The data is first B-encoded and the content is set to be the B-encoded string. For example, if called with "Big5"for the charset, you would get a string that looks something like this: "=?Big5?B?pHCtsw==?=". The data is Base64-encoded and stored between the last pair of "?" delimiters. Use the DecodeContent method to retrieve the byte data from a B encoded string.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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ChildContentMatches
Function ChildContentMatches(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal pattern As String, ByVal caseSensitive As Boolean) As Boolean

Return True if a child at the specified tagPath contains content that matches a wildcarded pattern. Otherwise returns False.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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ChilkatPath
Function ChilkatPath(ByVal pathCmd As String) As String

Follows a series of commands to navigate through an XML document to return a piece of data or update the caller's reference to a new XML document node.

Note: This method not related to the XPath (XML Path) standard in any way.

The pathCmd is formatted as a series of commands separated by vertical bar characters, and terminated with a return-command:

    command|command|command|...|returnCommand

A command can be any of the following:

  1. TagName -- Navigate to the 1st direct child with the given tag.
  2. TagName[n] -- Navigate to the Nth direct child with the given tag.
  3. ".." -- Navigate up to the parent.
  4. "++" -- Navigate to the next sibling. (next/previous sibling feature added in v9.5.0.76)
  5. "--" -- Navigate to the previous sibling.
  6. TagName{Content} -- Navigate to the 1st direct child with the given tag having the exact content.
  7. /T/TagName -- Traverse the XML DOM tree (rooted at the caller) and navigate to the 1st node having the given tag.
  8. /C/TagName,ContentPattern -- Traverse the XML DOM tree (rooted at the caller) and navigate to the 1st node having the given tag with content that matches the ContentPattern. ContentPattern may use one or more asterisk ('*") characters to represent 0 or more of any character.
  9. /C/ContentPattern -- Traverse the XML DOM tree (rooted at the caller) and navigate to the 1st node having any tag with content that matches the ContentPattern. ContentPattern may use one or more asterisk ('*") characters to represent 0 or more of any character.
  10. /A/TagName,AttrName,AttrValuePattern -- Traverse the XML DOM tree (rooted at the caller) and navigate to the 1st node having the given tag, and attribute, with the attribute value that matches the AttrValuePattern. AttrValuePattern may use one or more asterisk ('*") characters to represent 0 or more of any character.
The returnCommand can be any of the following:
  1. * -- Return the Content of the node.
  2. (AttrName) -- Return the value of the given attribute.
  3. $ -- Update the caller's internal reference to be the node (arrived at by following the series of commands). Returns an empty string.

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Clear
Sub Clear()

Removes all children, attributes, and content from the XML node. Resets the tag name to "unnamed".

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ContentMatches
Function ContentMatches(ByVal pattern As String, ByVal caseSensitive As Boolean) As Boolean

Return true if the node's content matches a wildcarded pattern.

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Copy
Sub Copy(ByVal node As Xml)

Copies the tag, content, and attributes to the calling node.

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CopyRef
Sub CopyRef(ByVal copyFromNode As Xml)

Discards the caller's current internal reference and copies the internal reference from copyFromNode. Effectively updates the caller node to point to the same node in the XML document as copyFromNode.

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DecodeContent
Function DecodeContent() As Byte()

Decodes a node's Q or B-encoded content string and returns the byte data.

Returns an empty byte array on failure

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DecodeEntities
Function DecodeEntities(ByVal str As String) As String

Utility method to decode HTML entities. It accepts a string containing (potentially) HTML entities and returns a string with the entities decoded.

Returns Nothing on failure

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DecryptContent
Function DecryptContent(ByVal password As String) As Boolean

Decrypts the content of an XML node that was previously 128-bit AES encrypted with the EncryptContent method.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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EncryptContent
Function EncryptContent(ByVal password As String) As Boolean

Encrypts the content of the calling XML node using 128-bit CBC AES encryption. The base64-encoded encrypted content replaces the original content.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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ExtractChildByIndex
Function ExtractChildByIndex(ByVal index As Integer) As Xml

Removes and returns the Nth child of an XML node. The first child is at index 0.

Returns Nothing on failure

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ExtractChildByName
Function ExtractChildByName(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal attrName As String, ByVal attrValue As String) As Xml

Removes and returns the first child node at the specified tag or tag path. The attrName and attrValue may be empty, in which case the first child matching the tag is removed and returned. If attrName is specified, then the first child having a tag equal to tagPath, and an attribute with attrName is returned. If attrValue is also specified, then only a child having a tag equal to tagPath, and an attribute named attrName, with a value equal to attrValue is returned.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

Returns Nothing on failure

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FindChild
Function FindChild(ByVal tagPath As String) As Xml

Returns the child with the given tag or at the specified tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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FindChild2
Function FindChild2(ByVal tagPath As String) As Boolean

Updates the Xml object's internal reference to point to a child at the specified tag or tagPath.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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FindNextRecord
Function FindNextRecord(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal contentPattern As String) As Xml

Returns the next record node where the child with a specific tag matches a wildcarded pattern. This method makes it easy to iterate over high-level records.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

Returns Nothing on failure

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FindOrAddNewChild
Function FindOrAddNewChild(ByVal tagPath As String) As Xml

First checks for a child at tagPath, and if found, returns it. Otherwise creates a new child with empty content.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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FirstChild
Function FirstChild() As Xml

Returns the first child. A program can step through the children by calling FirstChild, and then NextSibling repeatedly.

Returns Nothing on failure

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FirstChild2
Function FirstChild2() As Boolean

Updates the internal reference of the caller to point to its first child.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetAttributeName
Function GetAttributeName(ByVal index As Integer) As String

Returns the name of the Nth attribute of an XML node. The first attribute is at index 0.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetAttributeValue
Function GetAttributeValue(ByVal index As Integer) As String

Returns the value of the Nth attribute of an XML node. The first attribute is at index 0.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetAttributeValueInt
Function GetAttributeValueInt(ByVal index As Integer) As Integer

Returns an attribute as an integer. Returns 0 if the attribute does not exist.

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GetAttrValue
Function GetAttrValue(ByVal name As String) As String

Find and return the value of an attribute having a specified name.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetAttrValueInt
Function GetAttrValueInt(ByVal name As String) As Integer

Returns an attribute as an integer. Returns 0 if the attribute does not exist.

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GetBinaryContent
Function GetBinaryContent(ByVal unzipFlag As Boolean, ByVal decryptFlag As Boolean, ByVal password As String) As Byte()

Returns binary content of an XML node as a byte array. The content may have been Zip compressed, AES encrypted, or both. Unzip compression and AES decryption flags should be set appropriately.

Returns an empty byte array on failure

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GetChild
Function GetChild(ByVal index As Integer) As Xml

Returns the Nth child of an XML node

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChild2
Function GetChild2(ByVal index As Integer) As Boolean

Updates the calling object's internal reference to the Nth child node.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetChildAttrValue
Function GetChildAttrValue(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal attrName As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Returns the content of a descendant child having a specified attribute. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildBoolValue
Function GetChildBoolValue(ByVal tagPath As String) As Boolean

Returns False if the node's content is "0", otherwise returns True if the node contains a non-zero integer. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red".

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GetChildContent
Function GetChildContent(ByVal tagPath As String) As String

Returns the content of a child having a specified tag. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildContentByIndex
Function GetChildContentByIndex(ByVal index As Integer) As String

Returns the content of the Nth child node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildContentSb
Function GetChildContentSb(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal sb As StringBuilder) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.76

Returns the content of the XML element at the tagPath. The XML element's content is appended to the sb.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetChildExact
Function GetChildExact(ByVal tag As String, ByVal content As String) As Xml

Returns the child having the exact tag and content.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildIntValue
Function GetChildIntValue(ByVal tagPath As String) As Integer

Returns the child integer content for a given tag. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red".

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GetChildTag
Function GetChildTag(ByVal index As Integer) As String

Returns the tag name of the Nth child node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildTagByIndex
Function GetChildTagByIndex(ByVal index As Integer) As String

Returns the tag name of the Nth child node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildWithAttr
Function GetChildWithAttr(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal attrName As String, ByVal attrValue As String) As Xml

Finds and returns the XML child node having both a given tag and an attribute with a given name and value.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildWithContent
Function GetChildWithContent(ByVal content As String) As Xml

Returns the first child found having the exact content specified.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetChildWithTag
Function GetChildWithTag(ByVal tagPath As String) As Xml

Returns the child at the specified tag or tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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GetNthChildWithTag
Function GetNthChildWithTag(ByVal tag As String, ByVal n As Integer) As Xml

Returns the Nth child having a tag that matches exactly with the tagName. Use the NumChildrenHavingTag method to determine how many children have a particular tag.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetNthChildWithTag2
Function GetNthChildWithTag2(ByVal tag As String, ByVal n As Integer) As Boolean

Updates the calling object's internal reference to the Nth child node having a specific tag.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetParent
Function GetParent() As Xml

Returns the parent of this XML node, or NULL if the node is the root of the tree.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetParent2
Function GetParent2() As Boolean

Updates the internal reference of the caller to its parent.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetRoot
Function GetRoot() As Xml

Returns the root node of the XML document

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetRoot2
Sub GetRoot2()

Updates the internal reference of the caller to the document root.

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GetSelf
Function GetSelf() As Xml

Returns a new XML object instance that references the same XML node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetXml
Function GetXml() As String

Generate the XML text document for the XML tree rooted at this node. If called from the root node of the XML document, then the XML declarator ("<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>") is included at the beginning of the XML. Otherwise, it is not included.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetXmlBd
Function GetXmlBd(ByVal bd As BinData) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Emits (appends) the XML to the contents of bd.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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GetXmlSb
Function GetXmlSb(ByVal sb As StringBuilder) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Emits the XML to a StringBuilder object. (Appends to the existing contents of sb.)

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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HasAttribute
Function HasAttribute(ByVal name As String) As Boolean

Returns true if the node contains an attribute with the specified name.

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HasAttrWithValue
Function HasAttrWithValue(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As String) As Boolean

Returns true if the node contains attribute with the name and value.

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HasChildWithContent
Function HasChildWithContent(ByVal content As String) As Boolean

Returns true if the node has a direct child node containing the exact content string specified.

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HasChildWithTag
Function HasChildWithTag(ByVal tagPath As String) As Boolean

Returns True if the node has a child with the given tag (or tag path). Otherwise returns False.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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HasChildWithTagAndContent
Function HasChildWithTagAndContent(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal content As String) As Boolean

Returns True if the node contains child with the given tag (or tag path) and content specified.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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InsertChildTreeAfter
Sub InsertChildTreeAfter(ByVal index As Integer, ByVal tree As Xml)

Adds an entire subtree as a child. If the child was a subtree within another Xml document then the subtree is effectively transferred from one XML document to another. The child tree is inserted in a position after the Nth child (of the calling node).

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InsertChildTreeBefore
Sub InsertChildTreeBefore(ByVal index As Integer, ByVal tree As Xml)

Adds an entire subtree as a child. If the child was a subtree within another Xml document then the subtree is effectively transferred from one XML document to another. The child tree is inserted in a position before the Nth child (of the calling node).

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LastChild
Function LastChild() As Xml

Returns the last Xml child node. A node's children can be enumerated by calling LastChild and then repeatedly calling PreviousSibling, until a NULL is returned.

Returns Nothing on failure

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LastChild2
Function LastChild2() As Boolean

Updates the internal reference of the caller to its last child.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadBd
Function LoadBd(ByVal bd As BinData, ByVal autoTrim As Boolean) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Loads XML from the contents of bd. If autoTrim is True, then each element's text content is trimmed of leading and trailing whitespace.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadSb
Function LoadSb(ByVal sb As StringBuilder, ByVal autoTrim As Boolean) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.62

Loads XML from the contents of a StringBuilder object.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadXml
Function LoadXml(ByVal xmlData As String) As Boolean

Loads an XML document from a memory buffer and returns True if successful. The contents of the calling node are replaced with the root node of the XML document loaded.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadXml2
Function LoadXml2(ByVal xmlData As String, ByVal autoTrim As Boolean) As Boolean

Same as LoadXml, but an additional argument controls whether or not leading/trailing whitespace is auto-trimmed from each leaf node's content.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadXmlFile
Function LoadXmlFile(ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean

Loads an XML document from a file and returns True if successful. The contents of the calling node are replaced with the root node of the XML document loaded.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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LoadXmlFile2
Function LoadXmlFile2(ByVal fileName As String, ByVal autoTrim As Boolean) As Boolean

Same as LoadXmlFile, but an additional argument controls whether or not leading/trailing whitespace is auto-trimmed from each leaf node's content.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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NewChild
Function NewChild(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal content As String) As Xml

Creates a new child having tag and content. The new child is created even if a child with a tag equal to tagPath already exists. (Use FindOrAddNewChild to prevent creating children having the same tags.)

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red". See the example below for details.

Returns Nothing on failure

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NewChild2
Sub NewChild2(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal content As String)

Creates a new child node, but does not return the node that is created. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red". See the example below for details.

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NewChildAfter
Function NewChildAfter(ByVal index As Integer, ByVal tag As String, ByVal content As String) As Xml

Inserts a new child in a position after the Nth child node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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NewChildBefore
Function NewChildBefore(ByVal index As Integer, ByVal tag As String, ByVal content As String) As Xml

Inserts a new child in a position before the Nth child node.

Returns Nothing on failure

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NewChildInt2
Sub NewChildInt2(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal value As Integer)

Inserts a new child having an integer for content. The tagPath can be a tag or a tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "colors|primary|red". See the example below for details.

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NextInTraversal2
Function NextInTraversal2(ByVal sbState As StringBuilder) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Updates to Xml object's internal reference to the next node in a depth-first traversal. (This method name, NextInTraversal2, ends with "2" to signify that the internal reference is updated. There is no "NextInTraversal" method.)

The sbState contains the current state of the traversal. sbState should be empty when beginning a traversal.

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NextSibling
Function NextSibling() As Xml

Returns the nodes next sibling, or NULL if there are no more.

Returns Nothing on failure

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NextSibling2
Function NextSibling2() As Boolean

Updates the internal reference of the caller to its next sibling.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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NumChildrenAt
Function NumChildrenAt(ByVal tagPath As String) As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Returns the number of children for the node indicated by tagPath. Returns -1 if the node at tagPath does not exist.

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NumChildrenHavingTag
Function NumChildrenHavingTag(ByVal tag As String) As Integer

Returns the number of children having a specific tag name.

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PreviousSibling
Function PreviousSibling() As Xml

Returns the Xml object that is the node's previous sibling, or NULL if there are no more.

Returns Nothing on failure

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PreviousSibling2
Function PreviousSibling2() As Boolean

Updates the internal reference of the caller to its previous sibling.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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PruneAttribute
Function PruneAttribute(ByVal attrName As String) As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Recursively descends the XML from this node and removes all occurrences of the specified attribute. Returns the number of attribute occurrences removed.

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PruneTag
Function PruneTag(ByVal tag As String) As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Recursively descends the XML from this node and removes all occurrences of the specified tag, including all descendents of each removed node. Returns the number of tag occurrences removed.

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QEncodeContent
Function QEncodeContent(ByVal charset As String, ByVal inData As Byte()) As Boolean

Sets the node's content with 8bit data that is in a specified multibyte character encoding such as utf-8, shift-jis, big5, etc. The data is first Q-encoded and the content is set to be the Q-encoded string. For example, if called with "gb2312"for the charset, you would get a string that looks something like this: "=?gb2312?Q?=C5=B5=BB=F9?=". Character that are not 7bit are represented as "=XX" where XX is the hexidecimal value of the byte. Use the DecodeContent method to retrieve the byte data from a Q encoded string.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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RemoveAllAttributes
Function RemoveAllAttributes() As Boolean

Removes all attributes from an XML node. Should always return True.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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RemoveAllChildren
Sub RemoveAllChildren()

Removes all children from the calling node.

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RemoveAttribute
Function RemoveAttribute(ByVal name As String) As Boolean

Removes an attribute by name from and XML node.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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RemoveChild
Sub RemoveChild(ByVal tagPath As String)

Removes all children with a given tag or tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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RemoveChildByIndex
Sub RemoveChildByIndex(ByVal index As Integer)

Removes the Nth child from the calling node.

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RemoveChildWithContent
Sub RemoveChildWithContent(ByVal content As String)

Removes all children having the exact content specified.

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RemoveFromTree
Sub RemoveFromTree()

Removes the calling object and its sub-tree from the XML document making it the root of its own tree.

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RemoveStyleSheet
Function RemoveStyleSheet(ByVal attrName As String, ByVal attrValue As String) As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Removes all XML stylesheets having an attribute with attrName equal to attrValue. Returns the number of stylesheets removed, or -1 if there was an error.

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SaveBinaryContent
Function SaveBinaryContent(ByVal filename As String, ByVal unzipFlag As Boolean, ByVal decryptFlag As Boolean, ByVal password As String) As Boolean

Saves a node's binary content to a file.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SaveXml
Function SaveXml(ByVal fileName As String) As Boolean

Generates XML representing the tree or subtree rooted at this node and writes it to a file.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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Scrub
Sub Scrub(ByVal directives As String)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Recursively traverses the XML rooted at the caller and scrubs according to the instructions in the comma separated directives. The currently defined directives are:

  • "AttrTrimEnds" - Leading and trailing whitespace removed from attribute values.
  • "AttrTrimInside" - Replace all tabs, CR's, and LF's with SPACE chars, and removes extra SPACE chars so that no more than one SPACE char in a row exists.
  • "ContentTrimEnds" - Same as AttrTrimEnds but for content.
  • "ContentTrimInside" - Same as AttrTrimInside but for content.
  • "LowercaseAttrs" - Convert all attribute names to lowercase.
  • "LowercaseTags" - Convert all tags to lowercase.
  • "RemoveCtrl" - Remove non-printable us-ascii control chars (us-ascii values <= 31 except for TAB,CR, and LF are removed)

If you have other ideas for useful XML scrubbing directives, send email to support@chilkatsoft.com. It must be general enough such that many developers will find it useful.

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SearchAllForContent
Function SearchAllForContent(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal contentPattern As String) As Xml

Returns the first node having content matching the contentPattern. The contentPattern is a case-sensitive string that may contain any number of '*'s, each representing 0 or more occurrences of any character. The search is breadth-first over the sub-tree rooted at the caller. A match is returned only after the search has traversed past the node indicated by afterPtr. To find the 1st occurrence, set afterPtr equal to Nothing. (For the ActiveX implementation, the afterPtr should never be Nothing. A reference to the caller's node should be passed instead.)

To iterate over matching nodes, the returned node can be passed in afterPtr for the next call to SearchAllForContent, until the method returns Nothing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SearchAllForContent2
Function SearchAllForContent2(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal contentPattern As String) As Boolean

Same as SearchAllForContent except the internal reference of the caller is updated to point to the search result (instead of returning a new object).

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SearchForAttribute
Function SearchForAttribute(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String, ByVal attr As String, ByVal valuePattern As String) As Xml

Returns the first node having a tag equal to tag, an attribute named attr, whose value matches valuePattern. The valuePattern is a case-sensitive string that may contain any number of '*'s, each representing 0 or more occurrences of any character. The search is breadth-first over the sub-tree rooted at the caller. A match is returned only after the search has traversed past the node indicated by afterPtr. To find the 1st occurrence, set afterPtr equal to Nothing. (For the ActiveX implementation, the afterPtr should never be Nothing. A reference to the caller's node should be passed instead.)

To iterate over matching nodes, the returned node can be passed in afterPtr for the next call to SearchForAttribute, until the method returns Nothing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SearchForAttribute2
Function SearchForAttribute2(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String, ByVal attr As String, ByVal valuePattern As String) As Boolean

Same as SearchForAttribute except the internal reference of the caller is updated to point to the search result (instead of returning a new object).

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SearchForContent
Function SearchForContent(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String, ByVal contentPattern As String) As Xml

Returns the first node having a tag equal to tag, whose content matches contentPattern. The contentPattern is a case-sensitive string that may contain any number of '*'s, each representing 0 or more occurrences of any character. The search is breadth-first over the sub-tree rooted at the caller. A match is returned only after the search has traversed past the node indicated by afterPtr. To find the 1st occurrence, set afterPtr equal to Nothing. (For the ActiveX implementation, the afterPtr should never be Nothing. A reference to the caller's node should be passed instead.)

To iterate over matching nodes, the returned node can be passed in afterPtr for the next call to SearchForContent, until the method returns Nothing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SearchForContent2
Function SearchForContent2(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String, ByVal contentPattern As String) As Boolean

Same as SearchForContent except the internal reference of the caller is updated to point to the search result (instead of returning a new object).

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SearchForTag
Function SearchForTag(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String) As Xml

Returns the first node having a tag equal to tag. The search is breadth-first over the sub-tree rooted at the caller. A match is returned only after the search has traversed past the node indicated by afterPtr. To find the 1st occurrence, set afterPtr equal to Nothing. (For the ActiveX implementation, the afterPtr should never be Nothing. A reference to the caller's node should be passed instead.)

To iterate over matching nodes, the returned node can be passed in afterPtr for the next call to SearchForTag, until the method returns Nothing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SearchForTag2
Function SearchForTag2(ByVal afterPtr As Xml, ByVal tag As String) As Boolean

Same as SearchForTag except the internal reference of the caller is updated to point to the search result (instead of returning a new object).

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SetBinaryContent
Function SetBinaryContent(ByVal inData As Byte(), ByVal zipFlag As Boolean, ByVal encryptFlag As Boolean, ByVal password As String) As Boolean

Sets the node's content to a block of binary data with optional Zip compression and/or AES encryption. The binary data is automatically converted to base64 format whenever XML text is generated. If the zipFlag is True, the data is first compressed. If the encryptFlag is True, the data is AES encrypted using the Rijndael 128-bit symmetric-encryption algorithm.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SetBinaryContentFromFile
Function SetBinaryContentFromFile(ByVal filename As String, ByVal zipFlag As Boolean, ByVal encryptFlag As Boolean, ByVal password As String) As Boolean

Sets the node's content with binary (or text) data from a file. The file contents can be Zip compressed and/or encrypted, and the result is base-64 encoded.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SortByAttribute
Sub SortByAttribute(ByVal attrName As String, ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by the value of a specified attribute.

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SortByAttributeInt
Sub SortByAttributeInt(ByVal attrName As String, ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by the value of a specified attribute interpreted as an integer (not lexicographically as strings).

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SortByContent
Sub SortByContent(ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by content.

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SortByTag
Sub SortByTag(ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by tag.

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SortRecordsByAttribute
Sub SortRecordsByAttribute(ByVal sortTag As String, ByVal attrName As String, ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by the content of an attribute in the grandchild nodes.

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SortRecordsByContent
Sub SortRecordsByContent(ByVal sortTag As String, ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by the content of the grandchild nodes.

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SortRecordsByContentInt
Sub SortRecordsByContentInt(ByVal sortTag As String, ByVal ascending As Boolean)

Sorts the direct child nodes by the content of the grandchild nodes. For sorting purposes, the content is interpreted as an integer (not lexicographically as for strings).

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SwapNode
Function SwapNode(ByVal node As Xml) As Boolean

Swaps another node's tag, content, and attributes with this one.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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SwapTree
Function SwapTree(ByVal tree As Xml) As Boolean

Swaps another node's tag, content, attributes, and children with this one.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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TagContent
Function TagContent(ByVal tagName As String) As String

Returns the content of the 1st node found in the sub-tree rooted at the caller that has a given tag. (Note: The search for the node having tag ARG is not limited to the direct children of the caller.)

Returns Nothing on failure

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TagEquals
Function TagEquals(ByVal tag As String) As Boolean

Returns True if the node's tag equals the specified string.

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TagIndex
Function TagIndex(ByVal tagPath As String) As Integer
Introduced in version 9.5.0.76

Returns the index of the XML node with the given tag. Returns -1 if no node having the specified tag is found at the tagPath.

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TagNsEquals
Function TagNsEquals(ByVal ns As String) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Returns True if the node's tag namespace prefix equals the specified ns.

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TagUnpEquals
Function TagUnpEquals(ByVal unprefixedTag As String) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Returns True if the node's unprefixed tag equals the specified string. For example, if the tag is "soapenv:Body", the unprefixed tag is "Body".

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UnzipContent
Function UnzipContent() As Boolean

Unzip the content of the XML node replacing it's content with the decompressed data.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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UnzipTree
Function UnzipTree() As Boolean

Unzips and recreates the XML node and the entire subtree, restoring it to the state before it was zip compressed.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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UpdateAt
Function UpdateAt(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal autoCreate As Boolean, ByVal value As String) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Updates the content for the node indicated by tagPath. If autoCreate is True, then nodes along tagPath are auto-created as needed.

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UpdateAttrAt
Function UpdateAttrAt(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal autoCreate As Boolean, ByVal attrName As String, ByVal attrValue As String) As Boolean
Introduced in version 9.5.0.64

Updates or adds the attribute value for the node indicated by tagPath. If autoCreate is True, then nodes along tagPath are auto-created as needed.

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UpdateAttribute
Function UpdateAttribute(ByVal attrName As String, ByVal attrValue As String) As Boolean

Adds an attribute to the node if it doesn't already exist. Otherwise it updates the existing attribute with the new value.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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UpdateAttributeInt
Function UpdateAttributeInt(ByVal attrName As String, ByVal value As Integer) As Boolean

Updates an attribute value. (Call UpdateAttribute if the attribute value is a string.)

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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UpdateChildContent
Sub UpdateChildContent(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal value As String)

Replaces the content of a child node. The tagPath can be a tag or tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC". The nodes in the tagPath are automatically created as needed.

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UpdateChildContentInt
Sub UpdateChildContentInt(ByVal tagPath As String, ByVal value As Integer)

Replaces the content of a child node where the content is an integer. The tagPath can be a tag or tag path.

Beginning in version 9.5.0.64, the tagPath can be a tag path. A tag path is a series of tags separated by vertical bar characters. For example: "tagA|tagB|tagC".

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ZipContent
Function ZipContent() As Boolean

Applies Zip compression to the content of an XML node and replaces the content with base64-encoded compressed data.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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ZipTree
Function ZipTree() As Boolean

Zip compresses the content and entire subtree rooted at the calling XML node and replaces the current content with base64-encoded Zip compressed data. The node and subtree can be restored by calling UnzipTree. Note that the node name and attributes are unaffected.

Returns True for success, False for failure.

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