[fpc-pascal] fcl-xml

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, dev.dliw at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> working with fcl-xml some questions came together. Every hint is appreciated.
>
> 1.
> No matter what I do and which (short & valid) xml file I use - getElementById
> is always nil (tested with trunk and latest stable 2.6.2) and the same applies
> to TXMLDocument.IDs.
> I tried with ReadXMLFile and TDOMParser with different options - but the
> result is always the same.
>
> Is getElementById supposed to work properly or is it something that needs to
> be implemented?
> Trying to understand what the parser does (not that easy), I got the feeling
> that no Hashtable for the IDs is created  - can someone with more insight
> comment on that?

It should be filled ? 
The XMLTextReader creates the map, and passes it on to the final document.

> 2.
> Is there a way to tell WriteXMLFile *not* to use indentation?

No.

>
> 3.
> What is the state of XPath?
> The readme says 'Should be fairly completed' - can I assume it works for
> simple tasks?

This I do not know.

Michael.