In LabVIEW you can generate XML strings via the Flatten To XML VI. If we have an XML file generated by LabVIEW with the following content,

<Cluster>
    <Name></Name>
    <NumElts>2</NumElts>
    <I64>
        <Name>MyI64</Name>
        <Val>42</Val>
    </I64>
    <I8>
        <Name>MyI8</Name>
        <Val>4</Val>
    </I8>
</Cluster>

we can parse it with:

julia> import LabViewXML
julia> d = LabViewXML.readxml("/path/to/file.xml")
Dict{String,Any} with 2 entries:
  "MyI8"      => 4
  "MyI64"     => 42

The types will be parsed correctly:

julia> d["MyI8"] |> typeof
Int8

Clusters will be parsed as Dict.

The package was only tested with relatively simple XML files.

• Only a limited number of LabVIEW types is supported at the moment.
• The top level of the XML file has to be a <Cluster> element