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| José Luis Otermin 2004-01-29, 6:30 am |
| Hello!
I'm trying to substitute a DBF table with an XML file.
The reason? Simple:
The DBF is good enough to represent a list of data but is not so good when
we have an object structure.
I'm trying to implement a kind of persistence for visual form objects.
Storing
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<object name='DataBrowser1' base='VXDataBrowser'>
<property name='Left'>3</property>
<property name='Top'>15</property>
<property name='Width'>424</property>
<property name='Height'>160</property>
<property name='Workarea'>1</property>
<EMPTY/>
</object>
instead of a DBF it should be easy to maintain a structure which is more
likely a tree than a flat table.
Well, my question is:
How to store variable record lenght as xml?
Do I need a DTD to accomplish it?
Hope the question is clear.
TIA
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José Luis Otermin
oterminATciudad.com.ar
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| Schema rather than DTD is generally used now. Schema can be easily got by
using some languages. With legacy ADO you can get XDR, and with .Net XSD. Of
course you can write a schema yourself.
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Pohwan Han, Microsoft MVP, ASP/ASP.Net, Korea
Have a nice day.
"Jos?Luis Otermin" <otermin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eQb65Ml5DHA.2496@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...quote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to substitute a DBF table with an XML file.
> The reason? Simple:
> The DBF is good enough to represent a list of data but is not so good when
> we have an object structure.
> I'm trying to implement a kind of persistence for visual form objects.
> Storing
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <object name='DataBrowser1' base='VXDataBrowser'>
> <property name='Left'>3</property>
> <property name='Top'>15</property>
> <property name='Width'>424</property>
> <property name='Height'>160</property>
> <property name='Workarea'>1</property>
> <EMPTY/>
> </object>
> instead of a DBF it should be easy to maintain a structure which is more
> likely a tree than a flat table.
> Well, my question is:
> How to store variable record lenght as xml?
> Do I need a DTD to accomplish it?
> Hope the question is clear.
> TIA
>
> --
> Jos?Luis Otermin
> oterminATciudad.com.ar
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| José Luis Otermin 2004-01-30, 7:29 am |
| Thanks a lot.
In the meantime I've been investigating and found a reference to your words
in a UML for XML manual.
I'll implement a schema for XML.
Thanks again
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José Luis Otermin
oterminATciudad.com.ar
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