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		<td><h3>XMLElement</h3></td>
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		<th scope="row">Examples</th>

		<td><div class="example"><pre>// The following short XML file called "sites.xml" is parsed 
// in the code below. It must be in the project's "data" directory
// &lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
// &lt;websites&gt;
//   &lt;site id="0" url="processing.org"&gt;Processing&lt;/site&gt;
//   &lt;site id="1" url="mobile.processing.org"&gt;Processing Mobile&lt;/site&gt;
// &lt;/websites&gt;

XMLElement xml;

void setup() {
  size(200, 200);
  xml = new XMLElement(this, "sites.xml");
  int numSites = xml.getChildCount();
  for (int i = 0; i < numSites; i++) {
    XMLElement kid = xml.getChild(i);
    int id = kid.getInt("id"); 
    String url = kid.getString("url"); 
    String site = kid.getContent();
    println(id + " : " + url + " : " + site);    
  }
}</pre></div></td>
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		<th scope="row">Description</th>
		<td><p>XMLElement is a representation of an XML object. The object is able to parse XML code. 
		The methods described here are the most basic. 
		More are documented in the <a href="http://processing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/processing/build/javadoc/core/index.html">Developer's Reference</a>.</p><p>The encoding parameter inside XML files is ignored, only UTF-8 (or plain ASCII) are parsed properly.</p>
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		<th scope="row">Methods</th>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getChildCount_">getChildCount()</a></th>
		<td>Returns the number of children for the element.</td>

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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getChild_">getChild()</a></th>
		<td>Returns a single child.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getChildren_">getChildren()</a></th>

		<td>Returns all of the children as an XMLElement array.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getContent_">getContent()</a></th>
		<td>Returns the content of an element.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getIntAttribute_">getIntAttribute()</a></th>
		<td>Returns an integer attribute of the element.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getFloatAttribute_">getFloatAttribute()</a></th>
		<td>Returns a float attribute of the element.</td>

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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getStringAttribute_">getStringAttribute()</a></th>
		<td>Returns a String attribute of the element.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><a href="/reference/XMLElement_getName_">getName()</a></th>
		<td>Returns the name of the element.</td>
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		<th scope="row"><!--*-->Constructor<!--*--></th>
		<td><pre>XMLElement(<kbd>parent</kbd>,<kbd>file</kbd>)</pre></td>
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		<th scope="row">Parameters</th>
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		<th scope="row">parent</th>
		<td>PApplet: typically use "this"</td>
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		<th scope="row">file</th>
		<td>String: name of the XML file to load
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		<th scope="row">Usage</th>
		<td>Web & Application</td>

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