How to read the data from XML file in Automation Anywhere V11

Introduction :

In Automation anywhere V11 we have XML command that will use to read XML data, we have other sub-command using that we can Get Node, Insert Node,  Delete Node, Update Node  and Validate XML document.

Before get started make sure that you have a sample XML file, if you don't have download it from below link.

"Sample XML file download"

Read XML document :

Step 1 : Drag and Drop the Command "Start XML Session" and Select the XML file path.



Step 3: Drag and drop the "Get Node" Command, select the Multiple Nodes Type,
select the XPath expression type and enter the Xpath expression value - //parent_node/child_node

for example for the above xml doc, parent node is catalog and child node is book  so i wrote
"//catalog/book"  start with double slash.



Step 3: Create the User- defined Variable for what are the Node value you want from the XML document.
for example- From this above sample xml document, i want to Get node for all the book properties, so i created variable as v_Author, v_Title, v_Generation, v_Price, v_Description

Step 4: Use the Loop command for XML process "Each Node in a XML Dataset", make sure session name is same for all the line above including the loop command.



Step 5: Inside the loop command drag and drop the "Get Node" XML command and this time Select the Single Node with same session name and pass the Xpath expression value.

Note : for each book properties use the individual line and pass the particular xpath experssion as below and get the value to respective variable.

//catalog/book[$Counter$]/author           Assign value to v_Author, 
//catalog/book[$Counter$]/title                Assign value to v_Title
//catalog/book[$Counter$]/genre             Assign value to v_Generation
//catalog/book[$Counter$]/price              Assign value to v_Price
//catalog/book[$Counter$]/description    Assign value to v_Description

Note : I used Counter variable because Bot will get the node for the first set of book node properties and then in the loop Counter value will get increase +1

Default Counter value is 1

Step 6: Show the output variable in the Message Box.



Step 7: Use the Command "End XML Session"

Step 8: Save the task & Run.

Download Code

Please refer the below screen shot code for your reference.



Note : Use the other sub-command Insert/ Delete/Update Node by the same method.

Hope this is helpful to you, please share your comments.

Happy Learning!!😊