XML / XSL

Re: automatically generate xml sample files from xml schema

11-Feb-04 3:46

Does anybody know if Visual Studio .NET (or other tools) can automatically generate sample xml files (for testing, for example) from a given xml schema? (IBM used to have something like that for a given DTD).

Thanks.

Not Active11-Feb-04 7:18

Re: automatically generate xml sample files from xml schema

11-Feb-04 7:18

I thought XMLSpy could do that.

Anonymous13-Feb-04 4:38

Re: automatically generate xml sample files from xml schema

13-Feb-04 4:38

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the info, XMLSpy is not free, I think. Does Visual Studio .NET or some other Microsoft development tools provide that capability?

Thanks.

Not Active13-Feb-04 6:22

XML reference for Word 2003

13-Feb-04 6:22

You can get it as a trial version.

Scott McCulloch10-Feb-04 20:38

Scott McCulloch

10-Feb-04 20:38

I have searched MSDN and Microsoft and found a page which suggests I download some documentation. No download appears. Does anyone know where there is a downloadable version of the Word XML reference. I have the Excel Worksheet reference for Excel 2002 but not Word.

Re: XML reference for Word 2003

Anonymous17-Feb-04 2:51

Title bar in internet browser with frames

17-Feb-04 2:51

http://www.xmlw.ie/aboutxml/xml2word/

XML Porting Problem

Shenthil9-Feb-04 19:22

Shenthil

9-Feb-04 19:22

I am porting a XML based project from VC6.0 to VC7.0. But, 7.0 compiler shows 'ambigous symbol' error. How can I solve it.

Re: XML Porting Problem

ian mariano22-Feb-04 11:58

ian mariano

22-Feb-04 11:58

Add the desired namespace to the offending symbol, e.g., Namespace::symbol.

Ian Mariano - http://www.ian-space.com/

"We are all wave equations in the information matrix of the universe" - me

Vancouver5-Feb-04 19:42

Vancouver

5-Feb-04 19:42

(This is not an XML question, but where to ask it?)

How can the title in the title bar be changed according to the last selected frame?
Normally the TITLE of the main HTML (the "page") will be displayed, no matter which content
is actually displayed in the frames.

Miscrosoft's MSDN site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/default.aspx) changes the title with every selection on the left-side frame. How do they do it? Is that MS-IE specific?

XSLT

Large Data File3-Feb-04 6:36

Large Data File

3-Feb-04 6:36

I have a problem with the XslTransformer class.
The transform method i use creates un-wanted text nodes in the output file which are not created when i run the transformation via external tools such as XML Spy.

Basicly speeking, i want to get : <node attr1="val1" attr2="val2" ... />
but i get <node attr1="val1" attr2="val2" ... ></node>
which causes the output to be invalid to my schema.

And naturally i can't change the schema

Not Active4-Feb-04 2:50

4-Feb-04 2:50

Why does this invalidate your schema, they are the same.

Large Data File8-Feb-04 22:59

Large Data File

8-Feb-04 22:59

If they were the same I wouldnt be having this problem.
I dont no the reason why it is considered invalid, but it just is, and as i previously stated, I can't change the XSD.

Not Active9-Feb-04 3:02

9-Feb-04 3:02

You've got three choices.

1) Change the schema. Can't do it.
2) Change the transform. How are you using it?
3) Go away.

DataSet - reading in and XML Document

Large Data File9-Feb-04 3:32

Large Data File

9-Feb-04 3:32

I'm using a .NET framework v1.0 so i'm restricted with which overload i can use in the transfrom method. What i do is give the Xsl a XPathNavigator that i created from the XmlDocument, i give it null for the arguments and a stream to write to:

<br />
string transfrormerStyleSheet = LoadTransfrormer();<br />
XmlDocument transformationDocument = new XmlDocument();<br />
transformationDocument.LoadXml(transfrormerStyleSheet);<br />
XmlNodeReader transformationReader = new XmlNodeReader(transformationDocument);<br />
XmlDocument guiXmlDocument = new XmlDocument();				<br />
xmlDocument.LoadXml(xmlAsString);	<br />
<br />
XslTransform transformer = new XslTransform(); <br />
transformer.Load(transformationReader);<br />
<br />
XPathNavigator xpn = xmlDocument.CreateNavigator();<br />
FileStream fs = new FileStream(Environment.CurrentDirectory+"\\TempXMLstream.xml",FileMode.Create);<br />
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs,System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);<br />
transformer.Transform(xpn,null,sw);<br />
sw.Flush();<br />
sw.Close();<br />
fs.Close();<br />

I need the stream to be in UTF8 specificly.

Member 64401630-Jan-04 7:49

Member 644016

30-Jan-04 7:49

I am trying to read an XML document into a .NET DataSet object. I used the XSD.EXE utility to generate a schema file for this XML document. This schema has re-ocurring elements that I would like to load as records into my DataSet. However, I only want to load certain child elements as fields into the DataSet record.

Is there a way I can modify this schema file such that I can use the DataSet.ReadXml method to parse this XML file and create the proper table rows??

Thanks

Re: DataSet - reading in and XML Document

Rebreath27-Feb-04 11:18

Rebreath

27-Feb-04 11:18

What exactly are you using the dataset object for?

Matthew R. Sannes
Docsoft
Technical Marketing Specialist
www.docsoft.com
msannes@docsoft.com

Most efficient way to save changes made in xmlDoc?

sinnen29-Jan-04 8:29

sinnen

29-Jan-04 8:29

Hi!
I´m using a xml document as a prices list for different customers.
The pricelist is often updated as prices changes and new
customers are added to the pricelist.
Now i`m a bit confused on how I should save the price list as there
are several ways of doing this. I could use:

XmlTextWriter tr = new XmlTextWriter("xmlPriceList.xml",null);
tr.Formatting=Formatting.Indented;

- xmlDoc.WriteContentTo(tr);

tr.Close();

or

- xmlDoc.WriteTo(tr)

or even

xmlDoc.save(..)

which one shall I choose? further I want to make sure my xmlDoc is well formed before it´s saved, but I don´t know how?

Thx

Thomas Andersson

XSLT - how to preserve empty spaces?

Cristoff26-Jan-04 9:26

Cristoff

26-Jan-04 9:26

I have an .xml file like this:
<group>
<line> some text</line>
<line> some text</line>
<line/>
<line> some text</line>
<line> some text</line>
</group>

and I want to transform it to a table like:

some text

but the empty raw never appears. Empty tags are ignored? How can I preserve them?

Re: XSLT - how to preserve empty spaces?

Not Active26-Jan-04 10:03

Re: XSLT - how to preserve empty spaces?

26-Jan-04 10:03

Where is your transform?

This should do it.

<xsl:for-each select="group/item">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>

Cristoff29-Jan-04 7:00

Cristoff

29-Jan-04 7:00

this is my transoform (part of the style sheet)

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td class="PoetryTitle"><xsl:value-of select="poem/stave/title"/></td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td class="PoetrySubtitle"><xsl:value-of select="poem/stave/subtitle"/></td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td class="EmptyLine">.</td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="poem/stave">
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"><xsl:value-of select="number"/></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td ><xsl:value-of select="verse"/></td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td class="EmptyLine"><xsl:value-of select="emptyline"/></td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="80" valign="top"></td>
<td width="45" align="right" class="number"></td>
<td width="30" align="center"></td>
<td class="PoetryComments"><xsl:value-of select="notes"/></td>
<td width="10"></td>
</tr>

</xsl:for-each>
</table>

this...

Cristoff29-Jan-04 7:21

Cristoff

29-Jan-04 7:21

<xsl:value-of select="."/>

why the "."?

my workaround is: <emptyline>.<emptyline> and the color of the . is set to the background, so it looks like an empty line.

another problem is that I have text formated like this:
<line>first line</line>
<line> second line</line>
<line>third line</line>

but it appears like this (after transformation)
first line
second line
third line

"& nbsp ;" is rejected as invalid so I cannot use it for formatting.

Re: XSLT - how to preserve empty spaces?

Anonymous8-Feb-04 19:09