accessing xml element attributes in lua, how, if you do not want to use the .at scheme?

accessing xml element attributes in lua, how, if you do not want to use the .at scheme?

[Gerben Wierda]

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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?

Thanks,

G


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Re: accessing xml element attributes in lua, how, if you do not want to use the .at scheme?

[mf]

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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