XML / XSL Discussion Boards

Jim Taylor12-Dec-04 23:33

12-Dec-04 23:33

How can I get support for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 in .NET. Is there an assembly I need to reference or any other download?

Jim

Re: .NET support for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0

Philip Fitzsimons13-Dec-04 1:30

Philip Fitzsimons

13-Dec-04 1:30

http://www.x2x2x.org/x2x2x/home/project_areas/project_plan/[^]

a port of saxon handles this for you, thought you should know M$ is not going to put support of XSLT 2.0 is .net ever... http://blogs.msdn.com/mfussell/archive/2004/05/13/130969.aspx[^]

which I am very unimpressed by... Mad | :mad:

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Re: .NET support for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0

Jim Taylor13-Dec-04 1:51

Jim Taylor

13-Dec-04 1:51

Thanks for your answer.
You are right, Microsoft's decision not to provide support is unforgivable.

Jim

Repairing broken XML

Grimolfr11-Dec-04 3:25

Grimolfr

11-Dec-04 3:25

I have a 3rd-party app that generates some "almost XML" files that I need to parse.

It has elements similar to the following:

<color
    name = "Black"
    colorspace = "CMYK"
    cyan = 0.000000
    magenta = 0.000000
    yellow = 0.000000
    black = 100.000000
    />

Notice that the attributes with numeric values aren't quoted as they should be.

There are also a few empty elements that appear as <data > (the element name and three spaces), although it's an empty element and should be <data />.

These two deviations from true XML are making it impossible for me to simply load the XML into an XMLDocument so that I can easily access the elements I need.

I don't normally work with XML a whole lot. I was wondering if anyone knows of any "simple" methods or an existing library that can correct these errors in the XML as it's read from the file.

The empty element problem I think I can deal with pretty easily with a simple search/replace, as it seems there's only one element in the file that's ever munged this way, but the missing quotes problem is much bigger, as 99% of the numeric attribures are broken, in all elements.

TIA for any help with this.

Grim

(aka Toby)

MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB

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Re: Repairing broken XML

DavidNohejl11-Dec-04 4:16

DavidNohejl

11-Dec-04 4:16

hi,
Library you need will (hopefully) be my school work Smile | :)

meanwhile, you can check HTML Tidy (http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/[^]) It has some XML support.

best regards,
David 'DNH' Nohejl

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Re: Repairing broken XML

Grimolfr11-Dec-04 4:55

Grimolfr

11-Dec-04 4:55

Thanks, David.

I took a look at Tidy, but since it's specific to HTML and won't process a file with unknown tags, it won't work for me in its existing incarnation.

The source code, however, will give me some good insight into how to parse the XML and correct it myself on-the-fly.

Grim

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MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB

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Re: Repairing broken XML

Philip Fitzsimons13-Dec-04 1:38

Philip Fitzsimons

13-Dec-04 1:38

I would think that a Regular Expression would be the best way to fix this - RegExp

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XmlDocument Node Types

RB@Emphasys9-Dec-04 10:05

RB@Emphasys

9-Dec-04 10:05

Hello Everyone,

Im building an xmldocument, I need to create a node that has this structure,
<user ID="10"/>, but I can't figure it out. Im sure this is stupid, but what XmlNodeType should I be using for this, along with anything else I need.

Thanks for the help!
Ryan

Re: XmlDocument Node Types

DavidNohejl9-Dec-04 10:38

DavidNohejl

9-Dec-04 10:38

hi,
this is element Smile | :)

can be inserted into XmlDocument in many ways,
e.g:

<br />
// doc is XmlDocument<br />
doc.documentElement.Nodes.<br />
XmlElement node = doc.CreateElement(null,"user",null);<br />
				XmlAttribute attr = doc.CreateAttribute(null,"ID",null);<br />
				attr.Value="10";<br />
				node.Attributes.Append(attr);<br />
				doc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(node);<br />

Does it help?

There are more ways how to insert element into xml document, check MSDN for more...

best regards,
David 'DNH' Nohejl

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Re: XmlDocument Node Types

RB@Emphasys9-Dec-04 18:20

RB@Emphasys

9-Dec-04 18:20

Ahh, perfect, thanks!

DataGrid to Excel not ASP.Net please!

WDI8-Dec-04 3:08

WDI

8-Dec-04 3:08

write me a function that get dataGrid and filePath and makes the XSL file please.

Re: DataGrid to Excel not ASP.Net please!

DavidNohejl8-Dec-04 6:14

DavidNohejl

8-Dec-04 6:14

how much is the pay?

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Re: DataGrid to Excel not ASP.Net please!

Atal Upadhyay11-Dec-04 0:36

Atal Upadhyay

11-Dec-04 0:36

You may refer to URL:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/Sept/ExportASPNetDataGridToExcel.asp[^]

Hope that helps.

Re: DataGrid to Excel not ASP.Net please!

Atal Upadhyay11-Dec-04 0:35

Atal Upadhyay

11-Dec-04 0:35

You may refer to URL:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/Sept/ExportASPNetDataGridToExcel.asp[^]

Hope that helps.

SwA MIME attachements and .net

Michael A. Barnhart7-Dec-04 11:59

Michael A. Barnhart

7-Dec-04 11:59

Has anyone found an implementation that is usable in a .net client to send and consume SwA MIME attachments?

I have experimented with the pocketSoap implementation and find the parser to be rather unreliable. My enviroment will not let me expriement with GNU licensed code. The only other option I find is from smart421 but I am leary of no pricing prior to them contacting you sites.

I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.

Re: SwA MIME attachements and .net

Michael A. Barnhart10-Dec-04 14:01

Michael A. Barnhart

10-Dec-04 14:01

Well, I have now written my own class to handle this. BUT I really need to test what I have so far (of course I can read what I create.) Can any one recommend some publicly available sites that have SwA MIME and or DIME attachments with the response.

I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.

Standard format / encoding for xml?

mittalpa7-Dec-04 7:54

mittalpa

7-Dec-04 7:54

Hi
We are developing this application which uses different platforms like .NET, J2EE, Documentum etc. Data resides in Oracle. Application is exchanging data across these platforms using XML over HTTP protocol.

The problem comes when one perfectly (almost ??) created xml created in Documetentum unables to open in .NET .. Some characters in that xml are not compatible across platforms.

What data format or Encoding we should use so that the xml can work across platforms? Please suggest.

Thanks in advance.

Pankaj

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Re: Standard format / encoding for xml?

DavidNohejl7-Dec-04 9:05

DavidNohejl

7-Dec-04 9:05

hi Pankaj,
what encoding do you use?

best regards,
David 'DNH' Nohejl

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Re: Standard format / encoding for xml?

mittalpa7-Dec-04 10:02

mittalpa

7-Dec-04 10:02

we use encoding="UTF-8"

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Re: Standard format / encoding for xml?

DavidNohejl7-Dec-04 11:35

DavidNohejl

7-Dec-04 11:35

hi,
so encoding is not a problem. Unicode is platform independent standart and XML even uses UTF-8 as default encoding... .NET has no problem with UTF-8.
Problem has to be somewhere else.
I don't know that Documentum thing... If it produces valid XML (I think it does) there shouldn't be problem with entities, etc. So I really wonder which characters couse problems. Confused | :confused:

David

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XML in IFRAME

abc8765-Dec-04 20:09

abc876

5-Dec-04 20:09

i have set the source of an IFRAME to some xyz.xml file. XML gets displayed properly but i have a flickering problem.

If i open any other IFRAME on top of that, there is lot of flickering. The IFRMAE which is on top just contains a simple html page. If i try to move that IFRAME or even enter something in textarea on html page, there is lot of flickering.

Can anyone tell me what is the cause of flickering and how can i prevent it???
Any other tips?

Regards

Muhammad Shoaib Khan
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Sorting parent child releationships

Member 11446175-Dec-04 5:34

Member 1144617

5-Dec-04 5:34

I am currently working on an application that uses XML to store it's data. Items are kept in a tree, where the parent child relationships are important. The document looks a lot like this:

<item title="L2" created="10/7/2004 6:48:24 PM" lastModified="10/7/2004 6:48:24 PM" />
<item title="L3" created="10/7/2004 6:48:30 PM" lastModified="10/7/2004 6:48:30 PM">
<item title="L3A" created="10/7/2004 6:49:09 PM" lastModified="10/7/2004 6:49:09 PM" />
<item title="L3B" created="11/14/2004 3:03:02 PM" lastModified="11/14/2004 3:03:02 PM" />
</item>
<item title="L1" created="11/15/2004 9:18:31 PM" lastModified="11/15/2004 9:19:20 PM">
<item title="L1A" created="10/7/2004 6:48:00 PM" lastModified="10/7/2004 6:48:00 PM" />
</item>

What I am looking for is an efficient way to sort the data that maintains parent / child relationships. In other words I want L3A and L3B to be sorted by date only against each other, stay as children of L3.

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Andy Smile | :)

Re: Sorting parent child releationships

DavidNohejl5-Dec-04 5:56

DavidNohejl

5-Dec-04 5:56

hmm
insert new nodes in order? Smile | :)

best regards,
David 'DNH' Nohejl

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Re: Sorting parent child releationships

Member 11446175-Dec-04 6:05

Member 1144617

5-Dec-04 6:05

As much as I would like that to be the solution, the file is used in conjunction with a handheld device where the data could be created at different times then coppied over and not necesariliy be put in the right place in the file.

-Andy

Re: Sorting parent child releationships

DavidNohejl5-Dec-04 6:31

DavidNohejl

5-Dec-04 6:31

hi,
well, I tried;) Load it into memory, sort all childer of parent element and do the same recursively for all childer is probably the most stupid solution, bt only one I can imagine right now. sorry. Blush | :O

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