Hi all,

Currently working on an app which needs to be able to read an XML from a website. Looking at the page at http://wiki.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial it appears there is no way to get XML directly from a URL.

Do I need to pull the page down via :

function GetWebPageContent(const Url: string): String;
var fs: TStringList; HTTP: THTTPSend;
begin
    fs := TStringList.Create;
    HTTP := THTTPSend.Create;
    try
       HTTP.HTTPMethod('GET', Url);
       fs.LoadFromStream(Http.Document);
       Result := fs.Text;
    finally
       fs.Free;
       http.Free;
    end;
end;

Or is there a way to pass an URL to ReadXMLFile?

Thanks in advance!

Chris

"Chris Moody" wrote

Hi all, Currently working on an app which needs to be able to read an XML from a

website. Looking at the page at http://wiki.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial it appears there is no way to get XML directly from a URL.

There is not and there should not be. But you should be able to pass a stream to an equivalent function of ReadXMLFile, I simply don't know its name right now... Just check the unit ReadXMLFile is declared in.

Regards,
Sven

There is not and there should not be

Agree in the name of modularity. AFAIK fphttpclient has overloaded methods that accept TStream so it's still a one liner code (if you use the class method version).