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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:scilab="http://www.scilab.org" xml:id="xmlRead" xml:lang="en">
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>xmlRead</refname>
        <refpurpose>Read a XML stream from a local or distant file</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Calling Sequence</title>
        <synopsis>
            doc = xmlRead(path [, encoding] [, validateDTD])
        </synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>path</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string, the path to the file to read.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>encoding</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a string, the file encoding.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>validateDTD</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a boolean to indicate if the document must be validated.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>doc</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a mlist typed XMLDoc</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>Read and parse a XML file. The returned document allows to access to the DOM tree which is kept in memory.</para>
        <para>If validateDTD is set to true, the document will be validated or not during the parsing operation.</para>
	<para>The encoding argument is used to precise the file encoding.</para>
        <para>
            It is important to notice that the tree must be freed (to avoid memory leaks) with the function <link linkend="xmlDelete">xmlDelete</link>.
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example"><![CDATA[
    doc = xmlRead("http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/xml-names-10-3e.xml");
    e = doc.root.children(1).children(1)
    e.name
    e.content
    xmlDump(e)

    // Now we can retrieve all the nodes with an 'href' attribute
    q = xmlXPath(doc, "//*[@href]");
    q(1).attributes.href

    // We delete the doc
    xmlDelete(doc);
    ]]></programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See Also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlReadStr">xmlReadStr</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlGetOpenDocs">xmlGetOpenDocs</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlDelete">xmlDelete</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlDocument">xmlDocument</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlXPath">xmlXPath</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="xmlValidate">xmlValidate</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>History</title>
        <revhistory>
            <revision>
                <revnumber>5.4.0</revnumber>
                <revremark>XML module introduced.</revremark>
            </revision>
            <revision>
                <revnumber>5.5.0</revnumber>
                <revremark>Add new argument to select file encoding.</revremark>
            </revision>
        </revhistory>
    </refsection>
</refentry>