Thanks, that solved my problem!
I have another question related to what I'm trying to do.
The XML-file I want to modify is already installed on the target machine i.e
it is not included in the installation. Where shall I put my XmlFile
statments? The example below installs the xml file settings.xml and then
modifies it, if the file settings.xml was a file already installed what
needs to be changed in the configuration?
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles">
<Directory Id="Acme" Name="Acme">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="Foobar1000">
<Component Id="Settings"
Guid="F72070F6-AD0F-4dec-8723-66D94A18A7ED">
<File Id="XmlSettings" Name="settings.xml" DiskId="1"
Source="settings.xml" Vital="yes"/>
<util:XmlFile Id="XmlSettings1" File="settings.xml"
Action="createElement"
Name="InfoType"
ElementPath="//Categories/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'VectorMap'[\]]/InfoTypes"
Permanent="no" Sequence="1"/>
...
</Directory>
/Hans
Alexander Shevchuk wrote:
>
> Or you can use the fact that your newly created element does not have
> attribute yet:
>
> //ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode[\[]not(@Name)[\]]
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Perlman
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile CreateElement
>
> You could also use XmlConfig.
>
>>From an xpath point of view you can use something like so in your
XmlSetting2 which would get you the 3rd child element.
>
> "//ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode[\[]3[\]]
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of md5hans
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:54 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] XmlFile CreateElement
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a question about manipulating XML-files. I want to create a new
> element inside an existing node, after the element is created I want to
> set
> some attributes on it.
>
> My problem is that there already exists elements of the kind I want to
> add,
> how can I make the setValue action work on the new element instead of on
> of
> the existing? (the first one)
>
> My XML-file have the following structure
>
> <ParentNode>
> <ChildNodes>
> <ChildNode Name="A"/>
> <ChildNode Name="B"/>
> </ChildNodes>
> </ParentNode>
>
> And I want to create a new ChildNode element and set the Name value to
> "C".
>
> <util:XmlFile Id="XmlSettings1" File="[INSTALLDIR]settings.xml"
> Action="createElement" Name="ChildNode"
> ElementPath="//ParentNode/ChildNodes" Permanent="no" Sequence="1"/>
> <util:XmlFile Id="XmlSettings2" File="[INSTALLDIR]settings.xml"
> Action="setValue" Name="Name" Value="C"
> ElementPath="//ParentNode/ChildNodes/ChildNode" Permanent="no"
> Sequence="2"/>
>
> when I try this it adds a new empty ChildNode element and modifies the
> name
> of the "A" childnode. I suppose that it's not so suprisning since I do not
> specify which ChildNode element that should be modified...
>
> Should I set the value attribute in createElement and then use that value
> (by using a XPath) when identifying the new child node where I want to set
> the name attribute? If so, how do I set the Text value when defining a
> XPath?
>
> /Hans
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