User Guide

ilk() 361
Example
These Lingo statements leave ignoreWhiteSpace() set to the default of TRUE and parse the given
XML into a list. The element
<sample> has no children in the list.
XMLtext = "<sample> </sample>"
parserObj.parseString(XMLtext)
theList = parserObj.makelist()
put theList
-- ["ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "sample": ["!ATTRIBUTES":
[:]]]]
These Lingo statements set ignoreWhiteSpace() to FALSE and then parse the given XML into a
list. The element
<sample> now has a child containing one space character.
XMLtext = "<sample> </sample>"
parserObj.ignorewhitespace(FALSE)
parserObj.parseString(XMLtext)
theList = parserObj.makelist()
put theList
-- ["ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "sample": ["!ATTRIBUTES":
[:], "!CHARDATA": " "]]]
These Lingo statements leave ignoreWhiteSpace() set to the default of TRUE and parse the
given XML. There is only one child node of the
<sample> tag and only one child node of the
<sub> tag.
XMLtext = "<sample> _{phrase 1}</sample>"
parserObj.parseString(XMLtext)
theList = parserObj.makeList()
put theList
-- ["ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "sample": ["!ATTRIBUTES":
[:], "sub": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "!CHARDATA": " phrase 1 "]]]]
These Lingo statements set ignoreWhiteSpace() to FALSE and parse the given XML. There are
now two child nodes of the
<sample> tag, the first one being a single space character.
XMLtext = "<sample> _{phrase 1}</sample>"
gparser.ignoreWhiteSpace(FALSE)
gparser.parseString(XMLtext)
theList = gparser.makeList()
put theList
-- ["ROOT OF XML DOCUMENT": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "sample": ["!ATTRIBUTES":
[:], "!CHARDATA": " ", "sub": ["!ATTRIBUTES": [:], "!CHARDATA": " phrase 1
"]]]]
ilk()
Usage
ilk(object)
ilk(object, type)
Description
Function; indicates the type of an object.