B4J Question Looping through data, to populate an XMLBuilder object

rwblinn said:

Hi,

this example

B4X:

Sub XMLCreateNames
  Dim x As XMLBuilder
  x = x.create("Names").attribute("xmlns", "List of Names")
  x = x.element("Name1").element("ID").text("1").up().element("Name").text("Name 1").up().up()
  x = x.element("Name2").element("ID").text("2").up().element("Name").text("Name 2").up().up()
  Dim props As Map
  props.Initialize
  props.Put("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2")
  props.Put("indent", "yes")
  Log(x.asString2(props))
End Sub

will create output

B4X:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Names xmlns="List of Names">
  <Name1>
    <ID>1</ID>
    <Name>Name 1</Name>
  </Name1>
  <Name2>
    <ID>2</ID>
    <Name>Name 2</Name>
  </Name2>
</Names>

The trick is using up().up().

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    s_String = s_String & " " & s_NthWord

rwblinn said:

I am not sure I understand your question.
Instead of adding like I shared previous, doing this in a loop would be like below. Within the loop you can do anything prior adding, like concatenate strings.

B4X:

Dim x As XMLBuilder
x = x.create("Names").attribute("xmlns", "List of Names")
Dim s As String
For i = 1 To 2
  s = s & "Name " & i 
  x = x.element("Name"&i).element("Name").text(s).up().up()
Next
Dim props As Map
props.Initialize
props.Put("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2")
props.Put("indent", "yes")
Log(x.asString2(props))

Output

B4X:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Names xmlns="List of Names">
  <Name1>
  <Name>Name 1</Name>
  </Name1>
  <Name2>
  <Name>Name 1Name 2</Name>
  </Name2>
</Names>

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