XML

[Arsilex]

Hello guys i have this code:

local metaXML = xmlLoadFile(":"..path.."/meta.xml") 
    if metaXML then 
        for i, m in ipairs(xmlNodeGetChildren(metaXML)) do   
            local metaXMLName = xmlNodeGetName(m) 

but i have this error:

i'm sure that the "m" argument is a node-xml element.

[ViRuZGamiing]

Try using debugOutputString on metaXML and make,

xmlNodeGetChildren(metaXML) 

a seperate variable.

local metaXML = xmlLoadFile(":"..path.."/meta.xml") 
outputDebugString(tostring(metaXML)) 
    if (metaXML) then 
    local metaChildern = xmlNodeGetChildren(metaXML) 
    outputDebugString(tostring(metaChildern)) 
        for i, m in ipairs(metaChildern) do  
            local metaXMLName = xmlNodeGetName(m) 
  

Then tell me what's in your /debugscript 3

regards viruz

[Arsilex]

There is the return of the outputDebugString:

  
meta: userdata: 0x100ff18 
xmlNodeGetChildren: table: 0x1641870 

[Dealman]

It returns a table of children, make a new for loop to loop through them. A table is not an XML Node.

local metaXML = xmlLoadFile(":"..path.."/meta.xml") 
if (metaXML) then 
local metaChildern = xmlNodeGetChildren(metaXML) 
    for i, m in ipairs(metaChildern) do 
        for k, v in ipairs(m) do 
            outputDebugString(tostring(xmlNodeGetName(v))) 
        end 
    end 
end 

[ViRuZGamiing]

Yeah my bad, dealman

[Arsilex]

for i, m in ipairs(metaChildern) do

m return a node. if you dont see the outputDebugString is under

local metaChildern = xmlNodeGetChildren(metaXML)

so this need to return table if i will put the outputDebugString into a loop i will get a node and i get it but the script make a error.

[Arsilex]

i try to do this:

for i, m in ipairs(metaChildern) do 
            outputChatBox(tostring(xmlNodeGetName(m))) 

and i have this:

info 
false 
false 
false 
false 
false 

[ViRuZGamiing]

so your childern from metaChildern return false,

Show your XML.

[Arsilex]

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
  

  
type="script" version="1.0.0" author="AsuS" name="Test"/> 
  

[ViRuZGamiing]

BTW,

If the file is in the current resource, only the file path is necessary, e.g. xmlLoadFile("settings.xml")

[Arsilex]

yes that works if the is the same script but i used this line to read the meta.xml from another resource.

[Et-win]

What do you want to do with the script?

[Arsilex]

This script need to get the information from the meta.xml like script linked to they and download all that after whit loader load the code from .lua

[novo]

Well, I suppose you've changed the meta.xml file you're trying to read since the first post - so I'll rather give you a working example based on a sample meta file.

 <meta> 
    <file src="song.mp3" /> 
    <script src="client.lua" type="client" /> 
    <info gamemodes="race" type="map" name="Example" /> 
    <map src="example.map" dimension="0" /> 
    <settings> 
        <setting name="#respawn" value='[ "none" ]' /> 
    </settings> 
</meta> 

local meta = xmlLoadFile(":"..resource.."/meta.xml") 
local nodes = xmlNodeGetChildren(meta) 
local files = {} 
local _settings = {} 
for i,v in ipairs(nodes) do 
    local attributes = xmlNodeGetAttributes(v) 
    local type = xmlNodeGetName(v) 
    if type == "file" then 
        table.insert(files, attributes.src) -- song.mp3 / any file 
    elseif type == "settings" then 
        local settings = xmlNodeGetChildren(v) -- As settings in this case contains sub-nodes, we retrieve and loop over them 
        for i,v in ipairs(settings) do 
            local attributes = xmlNodeGetAttributes(v) 
            if attributes.name == "#respawn" then 
                table.insert(_settings, {attributes.name, attributes.value}) -- #respawn, [ "none" ] / any node's attributes inside "settings" 
            end 
        end 
    end 
end 

[Et-win]

Well, you can just use the example on the wiki (xmlNodeGetChildren) and change 'xmlNodeGetValue' to 'xmlNodeGetName'.