Hi james,
Here attached a sample of the file opened in notepad. Again, it displays
pretty well on the IE.
Any suggestion are most welcome.
shajy
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Thanks guys.
I just got my first lesson in DTD's ;)
My example was wrong. What I have is actually more like this:
<XMLDOC>
<Organisation>
<Identifier>89a6ec896b</Identifier>
<Name>Good XML Consulting</Name>
<OrganisationAddress>
<Address>
<Street>10 XML Lane</Street>
<Country>XMLville</Country>
<Phone>1-800-XML</Phone>
</Address>
</OrganisationAddress>
</Organisation>
<Organisation>
<Identifier>98e98d8b9e</Identifier>
<Name>Bad XML Consulting</Name>
<OrganisationAddress>
</OrganisationAddress>
</Organisation>
</XMLDOC>
So this DTD would apply nicely:
<!ELEMENT XMLDOC (Organisation+) >
<!ELEMENT Organisation (Identifier,Name,OrganisationAddress ) >
<!ELEMENT Identifier (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Name (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT OrganisationAddress (Address?) >
<!ELEMENT Address (Street,Country,Phone) >
<!ELEMENT Street (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Country (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT Phone (#PCDATA) >
The language we are using is an OO language similar to Java.
I have a separate method for creating each element.
If the OrganisationAddress reference on Organisation is null then a
message fragment similar to the "Bad XML Consulting" is produced.
At the moment I'm not using a parser to do my XML creation and
processing, just a large amount of String manipulation. It seems to fit
the OO model well. I have looked at using the SAX parser, but I have a
huge amount of code for creations and processing and I don't have the
time to implement the use of the SAX parser.
I might use the parser (with a DTD like above) to check the validity of
the messages when they come in for processing though.
Anyway... enough from me :)
Thanks again.
- Chris
