Chapter 10: Working with XML Files

The previous chapter covered some of the most common actions that you will use to build automated solutions. Knowing how to apply loops and conditions is key for pretty much all types of software development. Just to recap, the previous walk-throughs also included working with files and folders, as well as introducing you to the Record type variable.

Now that you have a better understanding of the functionalities Automation Anywhere provides, in this chapter, we will examine XML files. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to read, update, create, and delete nodes in XML files. We will also introduce you to the Step action. This action doesn't really serve much use but is helpful in organizing our bot's structure. Previously, we used the Comment action to show us the skeleton of our bot. Instead of doing this, we can use the Step action to group a collection of steps. From a visualization perspective, this allows us to collapse...