xml.DomDocument.load
Loads a XML Document into a DomDocument object from a file or an URL.
Syntax
load(
filename STRING )
- filename defines a valid URL or the name of the file.
Usage
This method loads a XML Document into a DomDocument
object from a file or an
URL, where filename is a valid URL or the name of the file.
Only the following types of URLs are supported: http:// , https:// , tcp:// , tcps:// , file:/// and alias://. See Web Services FGLPROFILE configuration for more details about URL mapping with aliases, and for proxy and security configuration.
Use setFeature()
to
specify how the document can be loaded. HTML parsing is possible when enable-html-compliancy is
enabled.
See getErrorsCount()
and getErrorDescription()
to retrieve error messages related to XML document.
When loading a document, if xml.DomNode objects are still referenced in other variables of the program, the entire document is kept in memory. Otherwise, the DOM nodes of the document are deleted before loading the new document. For more details about object references and garbage collection in BDL, see Working with objects.
In case of error, the method throws an exception and sets the
status
variable. Depending on the error, a human-readable description of the
problem is available in the sqlca.sqlerrm
register. See Error handling in GWS calls (status).
On Mac OS X® versions
prior to 10.9, the libxml library (used by Genero Web Services classes) has a
bug when parsing HTML documents. If you set the HTML compliancy option with CALL
doc.setFeature("enable-html-compliancy",TRUE)
, loading an HTML document with
xml.DomDocument.load()
may produce additional blank TEXT nodes, because the
libxml library loads some ignorable white-space nodes from the HTML document.
Starting with Mac OS X 10.9, the
libxml library of the system has fixed this bug.