[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59245] Implementation of an XML interface without Java dependency

[Guillaume]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #59245 (project octave):

readstruct/writestruct are targetting very specific types of XML files, e.g.
it starts to get ugly with this:


<a e="f"><b>c</b>d<Text>g</Text><b>3</b></a>



>> readstruct('test.xml')
ans = 
  struct with fields:
    eAttribute: "f"
             b: ["c"    "3"]
          Text: "d"
        Text_1: "g"


xmlread/xmlwrite always felt more Java than Matlab but you can access
appropriately any content of an XML file. In the example above, you can see
that the data order is lost with "3" appearing before "g" in the struct, so
you wouldn't be able to use readstruct/writestruct if you wanted to parse an
XHTML file. I guess it would be a problem with OOXML too.
I can see why they added the new functions though as that's what many people
want (it is equivalent to the convert() method of the xmltree class I wrote a
long long time ago https://www.artefact.tk/software/matlab/xml/).

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