XML4MAT v2.0

Converts XML to and from MATLAB structured variables.

Description

Inter-conversion between MATLAB structured variables and XML strings. A markup language was defined to support string representation of any MATLAB variable. Additional m-functions support import of any XML structure. The final picture: any XML --> MbML <--> MATLAB.

Manuscript describing original (v1.0) of tbox was published at:

Almeida, J.S., Wu, S., and Voit, E.O. (2003) XML4MAT: Inter-conversion between MatlabTM structured variables and the markup language MbML. Computer Science Preprint Archive (Elsevier), 2003(12):9-17.

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• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[lyhwus lywhus]

Very good sofware and is open source

[Jaakko R]

Just works for me.

[Kevin]

Very nice job. Impressive, elegant design. Love the open source too.

One thing I had to do right away was add a large precision to the num2str function in mat2xml. I was dealing with large values and needed the precision to remain. Line 35:
    XML=[XML,num2str(MAT(:)',100)];

[Charles Garfinkle]

Sorry, between lines 25 and 26, not 26 and 27.

[Charles Garfinkle]

Fantastic. The only edit I needed to make was to have mbmling.m also remove horizontal tabs between elements by adding the following between lines 25 and 26:

xml=strrep(xml,sprintf(['>',char(9)]),'>');

Otherwise, the presence of tabs between elements of the XML file caused xml2struct.m to throw an error and xml2cell.m to create cells containing structures that combine child elements with the parent element's last attribute (rather than creating separate cells for each child and parent attribute).

[Charles Garfinkle]

Also, opening a matlabpool and having some of the for loops in xml2mat.m done in parallel (parfor) results in a significant increase in speed for large trees.

[Mirko]

Hi, I've some problem with a file like this: any Suggestions?
The result struct is not the same as the one I expected. Ok for duplication of fields/substruct when I've the same tag (<value> in this case). But something missing, i.e. sourcefileselectedcodes is not stored in result struct.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!--
Put here comments
-->

<runselectiondisplayinfo>
<sourcefilenameselected>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>6</numberOfElements>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2002_05.nc</value>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2002_06.nc</value>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2002_07.nc</value>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2003_05.nc</value>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2003_06.nc</value>
<value>psa_blacksea_NA__mld_2003_07.nc</value>
</sourcefilenameselected>
<sourcefileselectedcodes>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>6</numberOfElements>
<value>184</value>
<value>172</value>
<value>173</value>
<value>174</value>
<value>185</value>
<value>186</value>
</sourcefileselectedcodes>
<roicodesselected>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>1</numberOfElements>
<value>blacksea</value>
</roicodesselected>
<yearcodesselected>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>2</numberOfElements>
<value>2002</value>
<value>2003</value>
</yearcodesselected>
<resolutioncodesselected>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>4</numberOfElements>
<value>20x20</value>
<value>2x2</value>
<value>5x5</value>
<value>N/A</value>
</resolutioncodesselected>
<monthcodesselected>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<numberOfElements>3</numberOfElements>
<value>05</value>
<value>06</value>
<value>07</value>
</monthcodesselected>
<runcodeselected>
<typeCode>2</typeCode>
<value>1</value>
</runcodeselected>
<removesourcefilesflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>0</value>
</removesourcefilesflag>
<allsourcefilesflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>1</value>
</allsourcefilesflag>
<allroiflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>0</value>
</allroiflag>
<allresolutionflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>0</value>
</allresolutionflag>
<allyearflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>0</value>
</allyearflag>
<allmonthflag>
<typeCode>1</typeCode>
<value>0</value>
</allmonthflag>
<classname>
<typeCode>7</typeCode>
<value>RUNSELECTIONDISPLAYINFO</value>
</classname>
</runselectiondisplayinfo>

Thank you.