How to read in an xml file created by c#

I have an xml file, I would like to read it into matlab as a struct. The problem is, I know very little about xml. I know that the header file is supposed to define what it is

<xs:schema id="Blah" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
    <xs:element name="Blah" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:Locale="en-US">
      <xs:complexType>
        <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <xs:element name="treeItemsx" msdata:Locale="en-US">
            <xs:complexType>
              <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="ItemID" type="xs:int" />
                <xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
                <xs:element name="Type" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
                <xs:element name="FolderID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
                <xs:element name="Value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
              </xs:sequence>
            </xs:complexType>
          </xs:element>

Matlab can tranlate this but the problem is it cant translate entries like this:

        <xs:unique name="_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI_Constraint1" msdata:ConstraintName="Constraint1" msdata:PrimaryKey="true">
          <xs:selector xpath=".//_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI" />
          <xs:field xpath="Name" />
        </xs:unique>

I have tried xmlread and it fails on a file like this. I would like to be able to read a non-java xml file.

I would also be happy with being able to read sections of the file by reading it as a text file, but I am unsure how to do this.

[Steven]

There is an old utillity called xmltoolbox that has a function called xml_parse and compiled it with pcode which wont work on newer versions of matlab. I'm looking for something with this functionality

Answer 1

[Nikhil Vyas]

If you provide proper starting and ending tags, it works properly with xmlread. I modified your first xml and added the second xml to the complexType section of the first. Here:

<xs:schema id="Blah" xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">    
<xs:element name="Blah" msdata:IsDataSet="true" msdata:Locale="en-US">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
        <xs:element name="treeItemsx" msdata:Locale="en-US">
          <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="ItemID" type="xs:int" />
              <xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
              <xs:element name="Type" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
              <xs:element name="FolderID" type="xs:int" minOccurs="0" />
              <xs:element name="Value" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" />
            </xs:sequence>
            <xs:unique name="_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI_Constraint1" msdata:ConstraintName="Constraint1" msdata:PrimaryKey="true">
              <xs:selector xpath=".//_x0031__x002F_27_x002F_201510_x003A_23_x003A_35_x0020_PMSONYBFYHJI" />
              <xs:field xpath="Name" />
            </xs:unique>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
  </xs:choice>
    </xs:complexType>
 </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

You can read the above with xmlread.

docX = xmlread('test.xml');

To test if it's working properly:

xmlwrite(docX)

Convenient documentation link to save you a Google search. :)

[Steven]

Xmlread doesn't work as I have already stated in the question, I already tried it. I need something that will read a section of the xmlfile because most of it is unreadable by xmlread.