[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45951] Add "xmlread" to core Octave or replace the one in io package

[Pantxo Diribarne]

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                 Summary: Add "xmlread" to core Octave or replace the one in
io package
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: pantxo
            Submitted on: dim. 13 sept. 2015 08:39:55 GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Hi,

There is currently an "xmlread" function in the IO package that is not really
documented and that doesn't seam to work as ML counterpart (actually I don't
understand what it is supposed to do). I couldn't find any use of the function
in the IO package itself and I doubt that many users will miss the current
version.
 
On the other hand according to a comment in the wiki [1], it would be fairly
easy to have a ML compliant version : it is just a mater of adding a
dependency (in IO or in core) on Xerces java library. 

FWIW, I tested a few examples from ML doc, and replacing "xmlread" by the 3
lines mentioned in [1] actually does the job.

[1] http://wiki.octave.org/Cookbook#Load_XML_files




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