Perl

Traverse Direct Children via FirstChild / NextSibling, or LastChild / PreviousSibling

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Demonstrates some ways to iterate over direct child nodes using the FirstChild / NextSibling and LastChild / PreviousSibling methods.

The input XML, available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/fruit.xml, is this:

<root>
    <fruit color="red">apple</fruit>
    <fruit color="green">pear</fruit>
    <veg color="orange">carrot</veg>
    <meat animal="cow">beef</meat>
    <xyz>
        <fruit color="blue">blueberry</fruit>
        <veg color="green">broccoli</veg>
    </xyz>
    <fruit color="purple">grape</fruit>
    <cheese color="yellow">cheddar</cheese>
</root>

Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $xml = Chilkat2::Xml->new;
my $nextSibling;
my $prevSibling;

my $success = $xml->LoadXmlFile('qa_data/xml/fruit.xml');
if (!$success) {
    print $xml->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Iterate over the direct children by using FirstChild / NextSibling
my $child = $xml->FirstChild();
my $bContinue = $xml->LastMethodSuccess;
while ($bContinue) {
    print $child->Tag, ' : ', $child->Content, "\n";
    $nextSibling = $child->NextSibling();
    $bContinue = $child->LastMethodSuccess;

    $child = $nextSibling;
}

print "-----\n";

# Do the same, but with FirstChild2 / NextSibling2 to avoid
# creating so many XML object instances:
$success = $xml->FirstChild2();
while ($success) {
    print $xml->Tag, ' : ', $xml->Content, "\n";
    $success = $xml->NextSibling2();
}

# Revert back up to the parent:
$success = $xml->GetParent2();

print "-----\n";

# Iterate in reverse order using LastChild / PreviousSibling
$child = $xml->LastChild();
$bContinue = $xml->LastMethodSuccess;
while ($bContinue) {
    print $child->Tag, ' : ', $child->Content, "\n";
    $prevSibling = $child->PreviousSibling();
    $bContinue = $child->LastMethodSuccess;

    $child = $prevSibling;
}

print "-----\n";

# Do the same, but with LastChild2 / PreviousSibling2 to avoid
# creating so many XML object instances:
$success = $xml->LastChild2();
while ($success) {
    print $xml->Tag, ' : ', $xml->Content, "\n";
    $success = $xml->PreviousSibling2();
}

# Revert back up to the parent:
$success = $xml->GetParent2();