How to create XML from a string (not a file) in Applescript?

Question

I have an Applescript that receive an XML string formatted as parameter, and I would like to read/parse data. Received string looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <win>
  <name>Documents</name>
  <target>SSD:Documents:</target>
  <listview>1</listview>
  <sidebar>0</sidebar>
  <bounds>1200, 630, 1825, 1080</bounds>
</win>

I saw examples with XML files but I can't figure how to populate a record based upon received string. Final record could be like this:

set myRecord to {name:_XML_element_name_, tg:_XML_element_target_, listview: ...}

Or I could use at least some variables:

set theName to _XML_element_name_
set theTarget to _XML_element_target_
...

vadian · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-15 11:10:19Z

2

Just make a new XML data instance from the plain text

set xmlText to "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>
  <win>
  <name>Documents</name>
  <target>SSD:Documents:</target>
  <listview>1</listview>
  <sidebar>0</sidebar>
  <bounds>1200, 630, 1825, 1080</bounds>
</win>"

tell application "System Events"
    set xmlData to make new XML data with properties {text:xmlText}
    tell XML element "win" of xmlData
        set theName to value of XML element "name"
        set theTarget to value of XML element "target"
    end tell
end tell

edited May 15, 2019 at 11:10

answered May 15, 2019 at 11:04

vadian

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