Syntax to 'find' in XML

Hello all, this is my first post in this forum, sorry if my english is bad

I want to create a simple word program, when you type a word, and click a button, give a result "YES" if that word is in the dictionary (in XML) and "NO" if not

And, How to find a word in XML? is there any XPath-like to find a word?

my xml structure:

<dict>

   <word>AB</word>

   <word>AC</word>

   <word>AD</word>

      .

      .

      .

</dict>

thanks for all answer

The best approach is either using Array (indexOf) or Dictionary (hasKey). I assume you just need to validate if the word from user is valid or not right? Regarding XML, it's a good idea to write them down on XML, but on start of layout you can parse and put each word entry to Array or Dictionary.

cmiiw

is there any nice tutorial to use dictionary?

I know there are many method to store data like this, but when I search here, I just find tutorial to use XML,

I believe the fact there are very little tutorials regarding Dictionary is because it's quite simple to use. All you need to do is set a key and value. What else do you need to achieve?

hmm.. but sorry I'm pretty unclear with dictionary,

may be you or someone could help me

this is my JSON after I convert the Last XML using PHPmyAdmin

[{"id": 1,"word": "a"}, {"id": 2,"word": "ab"}, ... I was try or dictionary.get("id") or dictionary.get("word") or dictionary.get("a") but the result is always 0 is it possible to find that "a" is exist (my case)? how to do that?

To answer your first question, if you were to use the XML to check whetner or not some word exists, you could use "Compare two values" and check if XML.NodeCount("/dict[word='AB']/word") is greater than 0.

Magistross, wow, it's work thanks,

but to increase my knowledge, I still hope there are someone answer my second question...

What I had in mind was use for each and iterate each 'word' element from your XML as Dictionary keys or Array values (just use 1 dimension or X only). And then you can check via Dictionary's hasKey or Array's indexOf. But that takes extra steps. Magistross way is much better.

To answer your first question, if you were to use the XML to check whetner or not some word exists, you could use "Compare two values" and check if XML.NodeCount("/dict[word='AB']/word") is greater than 0.

Magistross

I've try that, but it can't.

I just change 'AB' into a global variable.

The equivalent would be: XML.NodeCount("/dict[word='" & word & "']/word")

blackhornet

Thanks that's work!!!!