[Lazarus] Read/write records from/to XML

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Anthony Walter wrote:

> Have you considered xpath? It's a core feature of all xml engines (msxml, libxml2, whatever else).
> 
> Syntax overview:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256086(v=vs.110).aspx
> 
> In my wrapper would look like this:
> 
> Person := Document.FindNode('//Person[@Index = "0001"]');
> 
> Other examples
> 
> // All persons in a city that start with the letter A
>   Document.FindNodes('//Person[starts-with(City, "A")]');
> // Or to processing save time, select the Persons node
>   People := Document.FindNode('//Persons');
> // And now xpath is evaluated relative to that
>   People.FindNode('Person[Name = "Jan"]');
> 
> And so on

Free Pascal comes with the XPath unit, which implements the XPath spec.
It does not drag in anything except the dom unit.

Michael.