XML / XSL

13-Jan-03 13:03

Thanks for correcting this. I guess I have been working to long. I totally over looked base64Binary was mentioned and just read a binary memory block in a BSTR field.

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Human readable XML

michaKFromParis7-Jan-03 6:42

michaKFromParis

7-Jan-03 6:42

I use the MSXML IXMLDOMDocument to load and save settings of a Visual C++ Project. My code looks like this:

<br />
//create an instance of the parser<br />
hr = Document.CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(DOMDocument));<br />
if (FAILED(hr) || (Document.p == NULL)) throw (IDS_XML_CANT_CREATE_XML_PARSER);<br />
<br />
// load the xml document file<br />
VARIANT_BOOL Success = false;<br />
hr = Document->load(CComVariant(m_szFilename), &Success);<br />
if (FAILED(hr) || !Success) throw (IDS_XML_SETTINGS_CANT_LOAD_SETTINGS);<br />

Everything works fine and is square with the MSDN recommandations. But I still have a tiny problem: I decided to use XML in order to allow my users to manually edit the conf file but right now, the parser writes everything on a single row, making it hard to read. Eek! | :eek:

It is important to tell the parser to write tabs, spaces and linefeeds ...
but how ??? Confused | :confused:

Re: Human readable XML

Michael A. Barnhart11-Jan-03 12:14

Please Help: I cannot figure this out

11-Jan-03 12:14

Look for the whitespace settings (options). carraige returns and line feeds are just child text nodes.
Your users should be able to add the linefeed text manually and not impact your reading the data back in as a last option.

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lnong23-Dec-02 1:59

lnong

23-Dec-02 1:59

How come the "Copy Project" option in VS.NET is always disabled whenever I need to transfer a finished web service on my local computer to my remote web host's server? (I was always able to use this method to tranfer my ASP.NET projects).

Therefore, I had to copy the files manually via FTP. The files I copied were:

1) myService.asmx
2) myService.vsdisco
3) global.asax
4) web.config
5) bin folder which contains: myService.dll

All these files and the "bin" folder were copied to a folder called MyServiceFolder located at the root of my website's directory structure. But whenever I try to access the service (http://www.mysite.com/MyServiceFolder/myService.asmx) it fails. And it will not display the specific error because it could not locate the web.config (where <customerrors="off">).

However, when I move the web.config file out of the MyServiceFolder and into the parent folder, and tried it again, it was able to tell me the specific error: "Parser Error Message: Could not create type 'MyNamespace.MyClass'." But this means that my web service is still not working.

After some more trial and error, I was able to access my web service. What I did was that I also moved the "bin" folder out of the "MyServicefolder" and into the parent folder (where web.config is sitting). This made everything to work.

The location of my files on the server now looks like this (which is kinda too messy):

1) /web.config
2) /bin/myService.dll
3) /MyServiceFolder/myService.asmx
3) /MyServiceFolder/myService.vsdisco
4) /MyServiceFolder/global.asax

But the point is that I want to be able to organize all of my projects (web service, asp.net apps, etc) into their own folders on the server. So my big question is how can I put this web service into one folder such as MyServiceFolder, and make it work?

Is there some configuration/setup file where I can edit the path directories?

My other big question is how come I cannot use the "Copy Project" option to transfer web services to a remote server?

PLEASE HELP! Thanks.

Saving HTML Form Data to XML....... Need Help......

zhixiong19-Dec-02 19:12

zhixiong

19-Dec-02 19:12

Pls look at the link below so as to understand my problem..... its just a very short page so pls look at it.....

http://www.xmlfiles.com/articles/michael/htmlxml/default.asp

For the above link, the datas are being saved to xml using 'processForm.asp', if i cant use 'ASP' and my only choices are 'JSP' or 'Java' , 'XSL' to display. Can it be done???

Any websites that have similar examples or links will be greatly thankful.....

Re: Saving HTML Form Data to XML....... Need Help......

Victor Boctor22-Dec-02 13:06

22-Dec-02 13:06

A clickable version of the link above:
http://www.xmlfiles.com/articles/michael/htmlxml/default.asp[^]

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MSXML 4.0 deployment

act_x19-Dec-02 9:13

act_x

19-Dec-02 9:13

I am working on a parser using VC++ that utilizes MSXML 4.0. I have built a release version . I need to deploy this on another machine that doesnt have MSXML installed. How can I know which components(.ocx's or dll's) to include ?

Please help

Richard Deeming20-Dec-02 0:34

Richard Deeming

20-Dec-02 0:34

If you are creating a Windows Installer for your project, you can use the merge module (see the link for the downloads). Otherwise, you can either use the CAB file, or just run the MSXML4 setup on the other machine.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/766/msdncompositedoc.xml[^]

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Michael A. Barnhart20-Dec-02 1:11

20-Dec-02 1:11

You may want to check the legal redistribution on this. It may require you to use their setup vs just including the pieces.

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act_x20-Dec-02 4:36

act_x

20-Dec-02 4:36

Thanks for the reply. I would like to know how exactly to use the cab file .

Michael A. Barnhart20-Dec-02 5:14

20-Dec-02 5:14

You may want to ask Richard this. It has been several years since I actually prepared any distributions. At that time I was using the Wise Installer product line.

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DTD Repository

Victor Boctor18-Dec-02 17:04

18-Dec-02 17:04

Does anybody know about a DTD repository where I can find already defined DTDs for specific applications. For example, I am currently looking for a DTD that defines the rules for XML files that are to include bug information. I would like to integrate this into an Open Source bugtracker.

http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net[^]

Regards,
Victor

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Christian Graus18-Dec-02 17:24

18-Dec-02 17:24

The purpose of a shared DTD is to established an agreed format between multiple clients. I don't see the purpose of the sort of repository you're proposing.

you should also abandon DTD's - they suck. An XSD is the way to establish schema information.

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Victor Boctor18-Dec-02 18:44

18-Dec-02 18:44

If you implement an export-to-xml feature into your software, you will have to define a format for it. So instead of me re-inventing the wheel and defining this format (formally through DTD or informally), I was looking for an already defined format to re-use. Another advantage of using an already defined format, is that it can be used as a standard for exporting defects from one Bug tracker and importing them into another. There can also be an already existing XSLTs to convert it into different formats.

I would expect the format to look like the following:

<bugs>
  <summary>
  </summary>
  <description>
  </descripion>
  ... and so on...
</bugs>

Regards,
Victor

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Christian Graus18-Dec-02 19:20

18-Dec-02 19:20

Yes, but why would competing products publicise their formats so that other products can offer easy export to customers leaving them ? And as you say, XSLT is a good tool for converting formats, although less so DTD, compared to XSD.

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Victor Boctor18-Dec-02 21:54

18-Dec-02 21:54

Christian Graus wrote:
why would competing products publicise their formats

1. If these products are Open Source products, then they actually publicise everything including the code, not just the format!

2. If the DTD or XSD is designed by a standards organisation. The same way HTML DTD are defined by w3c.

3. In some cases there are projects that are focused around XML/DTD. For example, I once saw a Resume project that defines a XML format to store resume information which is then used to different formats including HTML/PDF/...etc with different styles as well.

In addition to all of the above, there is HOPE Wink | ;)

I was just checking before I go and design my own format. After all we are all here to learn and re-use whatever we can!

Regards,
Victor

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Christian Graus18-Dec-02 21:56

18-Dec-02 21:56

LOL - I'll give you one and three, excepting that the fact that one person defined a resume DTD does not mean that everyone will use it. But as you say, there is always hope..... :P

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Michael A. Barnhart19-Dec-02 13:17

19-Dec-02 13:17

Christian Graus wrote:
Yes, but why would competing products publicise their formats so that other products can offer easy export to customers leaving them ?

Because, It is a requirement for my company to purchase 5000 seats of your product, if you want our buisness.

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Christian Graus19-Dec-02 13:44

19-Dec-02 13:44

Well, obviously if someone is forced to do it, that's another matter. But why would I force you to tell the world about the format you create for me ?

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Michael A. Barnhart19-Dec-02 13:51

19-Dec-02 13:51

Christian Graus wrote:
But why would I force you to tell the world about the format you create for me ?

One if it is the world or just still private is open.

In my case data management and migration is a very expensive task. What if you go out of buiseness? I must have the ability to migrate the data I own. (The US supreme court did rule (for the US ok) that the company that uses the product owns the data not the company that made the software product a number of years ago.) I also have the right to share my data with partners that may not be using your product. So I publish my data in a format that can be shared and managed. You may very well have a private format that is used internally, but you will have a published format that is public and very perferably based on some international standard.

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Paul Watson18-Dec-02 22:55

Paul Watson

18-Dec-02 22:55

Christian Graus wrote:
The purpose of a shared DTD is to established an agreed format between multiple clients. I don't see the purpose of the sort of repository you're proposing.

Bit contradictory that, don't you think?

The repository idea is actually been done for DTDs and XSDs (the concept is the same) and I think it is a great idea.

Take the medical profession for instance. They have a multitude of forms and data models. There are efforts under way to compile a central repository of XML vocabs for the medical industry. Then any doctor who needs to publish some finding can go online, get the right vocab and publish his work. Prescriptions, chemical models, gene models, medicine production chains, you name it.

Oasis-Open.org[^] is just the thing. Very useful.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

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Michael A. Barnhart19-Dec-02 13:42

19-Dec-02 13:42

Paul Watson wrote:
The repository idea is actually been done for DTDs and XSDs

The direct link to the site hosted by Oasis is:
http://www.xml.org/xml/registry.jsp[^]

There are several products for organizations to host their own internal schemas for internal and business to business usage. These are useful for validation of shared or submitted XML files for data handoffs.

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Christian Graus19-Dec-02 13:45

19-Dec-02 13:45

Paul Watson wrote:
Bit contradictory that, don't you think?

Not at all. I can see why if my company is going to share info with yours, we agree on a shared XSD. I don't see why our companies would want to tell the world.

Paul Watson wrote:
The repository idea is actually been done for DTDs and XSDs (the concept is the same) and I think it is a great idea.

Is it driven by people using it, or on an 'if we build it, they will come' approach ?

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Paul Watson19-Dec-02 20:40

Paul Watson

19-Dec-02 20:40

Christian Graus wrote:
I don't see why our companies would want to tell the world.

Think bigger than companies. Think industries. We already do share DTDs. Namely XHTML, SVG, CML (Chemical Markup Language) and a host of others. The whole point is so that two companies in the same industry can communicate efficiently between each other on an industry agreed standard. If we keep our DTDs locked up then they are pretty damned worthless, their value is far less.

Anyway, I believe in sharing schemas.

Christian Graus wrote:
Is it driven by people using it, or on an 'if we build it, they will come' approach ?

They provide the hosting space and industries then elect a committee to produce a schema or ten for the industry. The schema is then hosted on the site. Even just those two repositories I mentioned have thousands of schemas for everything from biometrics to graphics to automobiles.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Shog⁹ wrote:
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Christian Graus19-Dec-02 20:49