Reading xml

[Guest]

Hey all,

If I wanted to read only certain records from an xml file, where do i begin
my search to find out how to do that?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Brock Allen]

Check out the System.Xml namespace and then check out XPath. The various
classes in System.Xml (XmlDocument will probabaly be the easiest to use right
off the bat) can help you load the XML file and XPath is the syntax to run
queries against your XML to get subsets of the data.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen

 

[darrel]

If I wanted to read only certain records from an xml file, where do i
begin

my search to find out how to do that?

Probably using the XPathNavigator:

Here's a snippet of code from a project of mine:

dim XMLfilename As String = (MapPath("/districts/" & siteID &
"/xml/siteMenu.xml"))
Dim xpd As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument(XMLfilename)
Dim xpn As XPathNavigator = xpd.CreateNavigator()
' set globalMenuCategory
dim expr as XPathExpression =
xpn.Compile("//menuCategory[../descendant-or-self:ageID = '" & pageID &
"']")
dim ni as XPathNodeIterator = xpn.Select(expr)
ni.MoveNext()
if ni.Current.Value <> "" then
'globalMenuCategory = ni.Current.Value
else
'globalMenuCategory = "null"
end if

-Darrel

 

[Kevin Spencer]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/frlrfsystemxmlxmldocumentclasstopic.asp

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the feedback everyone, I'm gonna get started.