XML / XSL

Re: Help me! Tag order problem!

26-Sep-06 15:49

The schemas for all versions of HTML (I may be wrong here) are written in DTD. Doing what you can be expressed using a DTD. However, XML schemas cannot do everything a DTD can (and the reverse is true!)

Go to http://www.w3.org/[^] for more information.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you but I think what you want cannot not be 100% implemented in a XML schema.

George L. Jackson27-Sep-06 6:24

27-Sep-06 6:24

The following might be helpful in general: http://www.xfront.com/BestPracticesHomepage.html[^]

The following may apply to your problem: http://www.xfront.com/VariableContentContainers.pdf[^]

XML structure

Waldermort23-Sep-06 5:40

Waldermort

23-Sep-06 5:40

I have never before used xml, so please go easy on me. I am creating a game for which the rules, will be stored in an xml file. These rules will vary from city to city, so it's important I can easily and quickly add support for a new variation. My xml file looks something like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!-- Root Node -->
<WinningHands>
    <!-- List of regions -->
    <Region Country="" Province="" City="">
        <!-- List of winning hand types -->
        <Hand>
            <!-- Single hand attributes -->
            <Name></Name>
            <Score></Score>
        </Hand>
    </Region>
</WinningHands>

In the final product there would be a list of maybe 10 to 15 Hand elements, and a few hundred Region elements. With my current design, the file size is going to bloated with repeated Hand elements. If I do it the other way around, creating Region as a child of Hand, there would be a large list of Regions to parse.

Overall, either way is going to be slow to parse and load. So I'm asking for some suggestions as to the best way to accomplish the task.

Re: XML structure

George L. Jackson23-Sep-06 13:43

How we can write condtional statements in HTML

23-Sep-06 13:43

You can flatten your XML by using more attributes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Root Node -->
<WinningHands>
  <!-- List of regions -->
  <Region Country="" Province="" City="">
    <!-- List of winning hand types -->
    <Hand Name="" Score="" />
    <Hand Name="" Score="" />
    <Hand Name="" Score="" />
  </Region>
</WinningHands>

johnalek22-Sep-06 22:58

johnalek

22-Sep-06 22:58

In my project it is require to open two webpages.If firstpage is not avaialble then open secondpage.can any body help me in my project.

#sanroop#

WebService

Egero22-Sep-06 19:48

Egero

22-Sep-06 19:48

I am using a WebService that returns a string. The string is actually a small xml file. I want to display the different elements, but am wondering what the best way to parse them is. Should I use an XmlDocument and read the innertext of each node? Is there a way to get all nodes without declaring each one individually?

Thanks

Eric

Open Text in XML [modified]

HahnTech22-Sep-06 10:59

HahnTech

22-Sep-06 10:59

Hi
How can i include a formatted text field inside an xml document? ie:

< Paragraph>
   <Color>Red</Color>
   <Font>WingDings</Font>
   <Text> this is the text & it needs to be able to hold all characters. 
                       Formatting       Info      needs     to     
                           Be maintaind. So do things like this:
                              $1.56 < $2.25 & so on...
   <Text
</Paragraph>

I've been mudling around with XmlSerializer but XmlSerializer.Deserialize dies on & and < ect. and looses formating.

-- modified at 17:13 Friday 22nd September, 2006

Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist

New Technologies Analyst

HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Email: rhahn82@telus.net

Re: Open Text in XML

led mike22-Sep-06 11:17

22-Sep-06 11:17

You can:

1) Use a CData Section although even then there is the ending "]]" sequence that the data must not contain.
2) Encode the data like in Base64.

led mike

xml if statement

fmardani21-Sep-06 5:26

fmardani

21-Sep-06 5:26

Hi,
I am trying to use the IF statement logic inside xml.
So came up with the line below:
The logic that I am trying to achieve is:
if there is a value for the field COMX_Field1 (i.e. if COMX_Field1 = TRUE) then show COMX_Field2, else do not show anything.
Is this correct?

Thanks

<line id="02">
<value x="1.00" formula="true">

Re: xml if statement

led mike21-Sep-06 8:54

21-Sep-06 8:54

=("{COMX_Field1}"="1")?"COMX_field2":""<br />

what is that supposed to be?

fmardani wrote:
I am trying to use the IF statement logic inside xml.

I have no idea what that means.

led mike

Re: xml if statement

George L. Jackson21-Sep-06 15:03

Any idea with manage content like a forum by xml?

21-Sep-06 15:03

When you say you are using the "IF statement logic inside xml", do you mean you are programming with XSLT?

oohungoo20-Sep-06 14:51

oohungoo

20-Sep-06 14:51

Forum written in php is very popular. But anybody has idea about managing a forum content by xml?

Querying with an XML document

vinusk20-Sep-06 9:01

vinusk

20-Sep-06 9:01

I have an XML document in my asp.net application containing country information
eg
<Country>
<CNo>1</CNo>
<Country>Afghanistan</Country>
<Nationality>Afghan</Nationality>
<ISDCode>93</ISDCode>
<Continent>Asia</Continent>
</Country>
<Country>
<CNo>2</CNo>
<Country>Albania</Country>
<Nationality>Albanian</Nationality>
<ISDCode>355</ISDCode>
<Continent>Europe</Continent>
</Country>
<Country>
<CNo>3</CNo>
<Country>Algeria</Country>
<Nationality>Algerian</Nationality>
<ISDCode>213</ISDCode>
<Continent>Africa</Continent>
</Country>

When a country is selected from a dropdown list, I want to be able to run through the xml document and pick out the corresponding continent only. What is the best way to do this? Smile | :)

Thanks, Vinu<

led mike20-Sep-06 9:53

20-Sep-06 9:53

XPath

//Country/Continent/text()[ancestor::*/CNo/text() = '?']

replace the '?' charcter with the number for the selected country

led mike

George L. Jackson20-Sep-06 14:43

20-Sep-06 14:43

Mike,

Your query won't work. Since you know the country you can find the 'Country' child node of the parent (which happens to be 'Country' too), and, then, you can access its sibling 'Continent' node:

//Country[Country='Afghanistan']/Continent

vinusk20-Sep-06 16:48

vinusk

20-Sep-06 16:48

Thanks Mike,

Will try out the solution you have suggested. Is there anyway I can do this using XMLTextReader...

Regards,
Vinu

led mike21-Sep-06 5:13

21-Sep-06 5:13

vinusk wrote:
can do this using XMLTextReader...

I have not used XMLTextReader much so I do not know, but typically if you are going to query XML you use a DOM and SelectNodes(). I would normally use XmlDocument for that.

led mike

George L. Jackson21-Sep-06 8:37

21-Sep-06 8:37

If you are using .NET Framework 1.1, it is XmlTextReader. If you are using .NET Framework 2.0, it is XmlReader. Anyway, you query differently with XmlTextReader/XmlReader since it uses a pull technique. However, you can get the same results but you have to do more coding. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/XmlTextReader.asp[^]

led mike21-Sep-06 5:09