xmlread fails if the xml file extension is other than .xml

Hi,

I am crrently wrting a script that reads and manipulates an XML file. However, I am to read an XML file with a custom extension. For e.g. the name of the XML file is myXMLfile.myExtension. In such a case the xmlread() function fails with the following error:

xmlread('myXMLfile.myExtension')

Error using xmlstringinput (line 42)
File parameter.incparamter not found

Error in xmlread (line 76)
    filename = xmlstringinput(filename,true);

Can someone please guide me on this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Vamsi

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

It is really common because the syntax works if and only if the function correlates to it , the option I choose is to just change the extension to .xml and to try the reading option , see https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/284557-how-to-call-a-file-without-extension#comment_368357

[Vamsinag Gunti]

Hi Madhan,

This should do :)

Thank you.

[madhan ravi]

Anytime :)

[Vamsinag Gunti]

A similar question but with write function. writexml creates a .xml file. Is it possible to have a different extension?

Regards, Vamsi

[madhan ravi]

no only you can create .xml with xmlwrite

[Vamsinag Gunti]

Update: The path I was trying to read from was wrong. That is why xmlread and xmlwrite functions did not work.

xmlread and xmlwrite work with any file extension as long as the data inside is xml. This is just an observation I made.