RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Glen Batchelor
There's a barbaric parser, as well as an XML node toolkit, on PickSource. Just go to downloads and look for the XML sub-group in the categories. The simplest method for parsing XML is to break the document down by . Well-formed XML will never contain a or character that isn't part of an

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Metherall, Arthur
Jeff, Depending on the release of UniData 6.0, or 6.1 (7.? not sure haven't seen it) the UniData preparation is some what different between versions: UDT 6.0 You need to create a Extraction file definition (see chapter(s) 10-Using UniQuery, or 14-Using Unidata the chapters

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
It's very easy to create/parse XML with .NET technologies. If you have a schema then you can read an XML document, convert it into an ADO.NET dataset in one statement, then you can push it into U2 very easily after that with mv.NET or PDP.NET. UO.NET would take more work because it does not have

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Stuart . Boydell
Tony, I'm interested, why not just use xslt to convert the XML directly into a U2 string and then pass in the data using uodotnet subroutines. Is there some advantage in using an extra step of converting to ADO? Stuart -Original Message- It's very easy to

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
Stuart wrote: Tony, I'm interested, why not just use xslt to convert the XML directly into a U2 string and then pass in the data using uodotnet subroutines. Is there some advantage in using an extra step of converting to ADO? If you know xslt, xpath, xquery, etc, knock your