Read specific value from XML-file

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Marc Gebhardt
Marc Gebhardt on 6 May 2021
Edited: Fangjun Jiang on 6 May 2021
Hi guys,
my question is about the reading of information from an xml-file of only a special type of object
Example part of XML-file:
<cim:Car rdf:ID="_00c7c220-2f78-4eb0-80fd">
<cim:Equipment.BaseGroup rdf:resource="#_29355f3f-035d-494e-8549" />
<cim:Motor.weigth>10</cim:Motor.weigth>
<cim:Motor.length>2.36517e01</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:Motor.length>7</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:IdentifiedObject.name>Nice_blue_car</cim:IdentifiedObject.name>
</cim:Car>
<cim:Car rdf:ID="_01281464-7eca-43db-aca9">
<cim:Equipment.BaseGroup rdf:resource="#_29355f3f-035d-494e-8549" />
<cim:Motor.weigth>15</cim:Motor.weigth>
<cim:Motor.length>2.33165e01</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:Motor.length>4</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:IdentifiedObject.name>Nice_red_car</cim:IdentifiedObject.name>
</cim:Car>
<cim:Bike rdf:ID="_02de5fa9-368e-4d5d-9a2f">
<cim:Equipment.BaseGroup rdf:resource="#_29355f3f-035d-494e-8549" />
<cim:Motor.weigth>0.5</cim:Motor.weigth>
<cim:Motor.length>4.54142e01</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:Motor.length>2</cim:Motor.length>
<cim:IdentifiedObject.name>Nice_yellow_bike</cim:IdentifiedObject.name>
</cim:Bike>
In this example, there are vehicles listed. Some cars and a bike. For example, i want to read out the names ("IdentifiedObject.name") but only from all objects out the the group Car. The result should be a cell, with size (number of elements of type car x 1) with the names in.
How can I do this?

Answers (1)

Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 6 May 2021
The short answer is to use xmlread(). I've done it before. The actual code depends on the schema.
You may also try xml2struct(). It seems much easier.
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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 6 May 2021
Edited: Fangjun Jiang on 6 May 2021
I used the getElementsByTagName() method.
Marc Gebhardt
Marc Gebhardt on 6 May 2021
Then let us leave this kind of general answers please.
Just write one command, which lists the names for this easy example withput a loop over all elements.

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