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From: mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: accessing xml element attributes in lua, how, if you do not want to use the .at scheme?
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 15:43:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb2677ac-e986-49c8-b1c6-c2de5704835c@fastwebnet.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E89E9FDC-77A9-4F46-9609-18FF95D7BB66@rna.nl>

Il 09/06/20 15:31, Gerben Wierda ha scritto:
> I’ve been trying to find out how I can access XML node 
> properties/attributes in lua other than via the .at syntactic scheme but 
> using the property/attribute name as a string.
> 
> E.g., currently I do:
> 
> someVar = someNode.at.someProperty
> 
> but I would like to do something /like/
> 
> someVar = someNode[“someProperty”] or someNode.attribute(“someProperty”) 
> or something where I can use the string version of the 
> properties/attribute name.
> 
> It’s probably possible (after all these are all dynamic structures that 
> come from data), but how exactly?
> 

local prop = "someProperty"
someVar = someNode.at[ prop ]

Massi
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2020-06-09 13:31 Gerben Wierda
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