Aha - this works well. Thanks!
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I get the same error. On a Mac (OS X 10.4.11) at least, the xml files are plain text files. The solution is to -infix- a single string variable with length equal to the maximum of the data lines Then use -regexm- to extract the pieces.
>
> ****************Code Begins************
> infix str dummy 1-90 using dd.xml, clear
> ***************Code Ends**************
>
> -Steve
> On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Dan Weitzenfeld wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> I'm trying to read .xml files into Stata. Once there, I can parse
>> them, even if they are read into just one variable - I'm handy with
>> -regexm- and the like.
>> My problem is that I can't seem to get around the quotation marks in
>> the file. Two rows of the file look like this:
>>
>> <session="NCX_1" target="entrance" movie="0" start="22:22:23.000"
>> duration="199" />
>> <session="NCX_2" target="floor" movie="0" start="22:22:24.000"
>> duration="179" />
>>
>>
>> When I insheet, I get
>>
>> 199/>
>> 179/>
>>
>> When I xmluse, I get
>>
>> unrecognizable XML doctype
>> r(198);
>>
>> regardless of which doctype I specify.
>>
>>
>> Are there any tricks for getting Stata to ignore the quotation marks
>> within the file?
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
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