function s=xml2struct(filename) % structure parser, converts numeric character strings into numbers t=xmltree(filename); ss=convert(t); s=convert_string(ss); function out=convert_string(s) info=whos('s'); switch info.class case 'struct' names = fieldnames(s); for k=1:length(names) out.(names{k})=convert_string(s.(names{k})); end case 'char' if isempty(regexp(s,'\<\d+\>')) out=s; else out=str2num(s); end otherwise out=s; end