I am actually working on an XML tutorial right now, having had problems myself. It's very much a case of starting small, checking all the results and building up gradually, but I think I'm getting there now. I am away for the next two weeks but hopefully I will have my tutorial finished by the time I get back.

When it is ready, I was thinking of offering it to RunRev for inclusion with Revolution itself as it seems to fill a blank spot in the current docs, but I will also release it on my own web site.

Cheers,
Sarah

On 28 Apr 2004, at 10:08 am, kee nethery wrote:

I'm playing with the XML libraries and the thing I'm having trouble with is understanding the terminology. The definitions are extremely sparse and because of that I cannot figure out which functions do what I want. What would be extremely useful are examples. Not example code by itself, but example code with defined inputs and what that code does as an output with that input.

for example this is a sample from the docs and it is just one step better than useless:

put revXMLParent(1,"/City/Publisher") into parent

If treeId 1 is:

<City>
  <Publisher name="easy">
    <Author>jeff</Author>
    <Author>mary</Author>
  </Publisher>
  <Publisher name="difficult">
    <Author>bob</Author>
    <Author>carol</Author>
  </Publisher>
</City>

what does "parent" get set to?

What would be really useful is if someone could develop an example tree that can be used to demonstrate all the functions. Then I'll be able to look at the sample code, look at the sample inputs, see which function gets the data I'm looking for, and then use that function.

Right now I have to manually build a tree and then try all the possible functions against it to see which function produces the information I am seeking.

It would be so helpful if the docs had a full example tree and all the example functions used that tree and showed the results they would return.

Just my 2 cents,
Kee Nethery

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