The XML command I use mostly is sometimes referred to as XPath. In Livecode it 
is:
revXMLNodeContents(3,"/Book/Chapter/Section”)

What this is is the direct address in the XML tree of the node data you are 
looking for. In this case /Book/Chapter/Section gives me the node data for 
Section, inside Chapter, inside Book. Think of this as a absolute file path.

When your XML contains a set of data, you’ll need to use other commands to grab 
all the data in the set. But if your XML has a bunch of unique elements, you 
can specify the exact one you need using the NodeContents function.

Cheers,
Kee Nethery


> On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:25 PM, William Prothero <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> I’ll give it a whack.
> Bill
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Michael Doub <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I had never heard of kml, so I poked around a bit and found some samples at 
>> https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kml_tut.     It looks like 
>> it is a specific format of xml.
>> 
>> convertXMLToArray seems to work, but you are still going to have to look 
>> closely at the array structure that is specific to kml.   Hope this helps 
>> you get started.
>> 
>> -= Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/13/15 2:58 PM, William Prothero wrote:
>>> I’m about to build a parse to retrieve country outline data from a KML 
>>> file. This seems straightforward, but just wondering if there is a handler 
>>> posted someplace for this. Basically, I’ll parse out the lat/lon outlines, 
>>> then render it onto a map using my own methods.
>>> 
>>> If there is none, then I’ll be glad to share what I come up with.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> William A. Prothero
>>> http://es.earthednet.org/
>>> 
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