XML parsing tools

xmltools is a MATLAB tool designed to handle XML data.

Description

xmltool is provided with a explanation pdf file produced with ocamaweb.
this new version allow to request only a given type of tags.

see up-to-date version on sourceforge :
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72934

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)

[charles lehalle]

an up-to-date version of this file will be downloadable at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72934
you can submit bugs or features requets there too.

[Pierre Joly]

A very good tool.
After interesting exchanges with the author, it turns out that the syntax "z.child(2).child(1).child(3).child.attribs(2)", which is not very nice, cannot be more specific to the file (as z.root.thirdbranch.otherbranch.myleaf) because the tree described by an xml file can have branches with the same name and different structures. According to Charles Lehalle, future developments of the tool should include friendlier ways to access to the data. This is a good reason to subscribe to the automatic notification of changes of the file.

[Michel Thierry]

Good tool, but it doesn't handle CDATA elements (which should not be parsed, but should be kept within the parsed structure as text).

[Jesse Hopkins]

Good tool, but runs slow for large files, and does not handle xml comments as is, but wasn't too hard to figure out how to fix that. I actually think the syntax
z.child(2).child(1).child(2).attribs(2)
works better than other matlab xml tools on the file exchange, as the structure will always be the same format no matter what the xml file. This also handles repetative tag names, which the others that I've seen do not. You can make it more readable by using intermediate variables suchas:
mysubsystem = z.child(1)
mysub_subsystem = mysubsystem.child(1)
etc..