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Reads an XML document from a file.{td}{tr}{tbody}{tbody}{tr}{td}[XmlNode]\[]{td}{td}[#readXmlDocumentFromString]\(argument)
Reads an XML document from a string.{td}{tr}{tbody}{table}\\
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// specifies a reference to a file containing valid XML
var xmlNodes = plugins.XmlReader.readXmlDocumentFromFile('c:/test.xml');
var childNodes = xmlNodes[0].getChildNodes();
// shows a dialog to open an xml file, then reads the file
var xmlFile = plugins.file.showFileOpenDialog(1);
var xmlNodes = plugins.XmlReader.readXmlDocumentFromFile(xmlFile);
var childNodes = xmlNodes[0].getChildNodes();
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var xmlString = '<books><book price="44.95">' +
'<title>Core Java 1.5</title>' +
'<author>Piet Klerksen</author>' +
'<nrPages>1487</nrPages>' +
'</book>' +
'<book price="59.95">' +
'<title>Developing with Servoy</title>' +
'<author>Cheryl Owens and others</author><nrPages>492</nrPages></book></books>';
var xmlNodes = plugins.XmlReader.readXmlDocumentFromString(xmlString);
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