Dynamic properties ?

[C# newbie]

Hi,

I've a program which runs some XPath queries to retreive information within
an xml file. it does keep track of every path (in case of finding the item).
Along with this it should capture attribute information of every visited
node during a seek procedure.
I've used an ArrayList and a class which has properties for node name and
its realted informationi. Regarding to xml structure there is a cateogry and
ID so we know we have a pattern for it but for number of attributes is
vary. Some nodes may have 6 attributes and some none and ...
Is there any way to have dynamic properties in a class ? !! or any solution
?

Let's say the xml is like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frame frameName="empty" frameID="1" StyleUsage="URL"
xmlns=http://www.focxvbotererwest.com frameProgrammer="Co\foo"
DateTime="2/12/2004 5:00:54 PM">
<Params>
<BackgroundColor>#19384A</BackgroundColor>
<LinkColor>#ffffff</LinkColor>
<VisitedLinkColor>#ffffff</VisitedLinkColor>
<TextColor>#ffffff</TextColor>
<Direction>ltr</Direction>
<BackgroundImage>
</BackgroundImage>
<Header>&lt;table width='600' cellspacing='0' callpadding='0' border='0'
align='center'&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img
src='http://img.fooresearch.com/images/foologo.gif' alt='foo' width='175'
height='62'&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</Header>
<Footer>&lt;table align=center border='0' Width='600'&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='50%'&gt;&lt;FONT FACE='Arial,Helvetica' Size='1'
COLOR='#FFFFFF'&gt;COPYRIGHT &lt;script
language='javascript'&gt;document.write(String.fromCharCode(38));&lt;/script
&gt;copy 2000 - 2004 foo CORP. All rights reserved.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width='50%' align='right'&gt;&lt;FONT FACE='Arial,Helvetica' Size='1'
COLOR='#FFFFFF'&gt;Technical Problems? &lt;a
href='http://www.fooresearch.com/support_form.asp'&gt;Contact Us, please
reference frame content in the subject
line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt;</Footer>
<CSS>frame.css</CSS>
<MouseOverMessage>
</MouseOverMessage>
</Params>
<RepeatLists />

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I've a program which runs some XPath queries to retreive information within
an xml file. it does keep track of every path (in case of finding the item).
Along with this it should capture attribute information of every visited
node during a seek procedure.
I've used an ArrayList and a class which has properties for node name and
its realted informationi. Regarding to xml structure there is a cateogry and
ID so we know we have a pattern for it but for number of attributes is
vary. Some nodes may have 6 attributes and some none and ...
Is there any way to have dynamic properties in a class ? !! or any solution
?

I suggest you use a map such as a Hashtable.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I suggest you use a map such as a Hashtable.

.... or NameValueCollection or StringDictionary.

 

[C# newbie]

Thanks Jon, I'll try it

I suggest you use a map such as a Hashtable.