om.DomNode.loadXml

Load an XML file into the current node.

Syntax

loadXml(
   path STRING )
  RETURNS om.DomNode

path is the path to the XML file.

Usage

The loadXml() method takes a file path as parameter and loads the XML content into the current node, by creating a new DOM structure in memory. The method then returns the created child DOM node.

To hold the reference to the new node, define a variable with the om.DomNode type.

In case of XML parsing error, the method does not raise a runtime error and therefore cannot be trapped with WHENEVER ERROR or in a TRY/CATCH block. Instead, NULL is returned and the status variable is set with an error number such as -8022 or -8050.

Note: Files encoded in UTF-8 can start with the UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM), a sequence of 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF bytes, also known as UNICODE U+FEFF. When reading files, Genero BDL will ignore the UTF-8 BOM, if it is present at the beginning of the file. This applies to instructions such as LOAD, as well as I/O APIs such as base.Channel.read() and readLine().

Example

DEFINE parent, new om.DomNode
...
LET new = parent.loadXml("myfile.xml")
IF status != 0 THEN
   DISPLAY "ERROR: ", status
   EXIT PROGRAM 1
END IF
...