[fpc-pascal] fcl-xml

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:39:35 +0100
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 seems to be started, but not finished.
I have not written it, just looked at the implementation.

 
> 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?

Yes.

Mattias