Converting CSV File to XML in Java
Is there an existing application or library in Java which will allow me to take CSV data and create an XML file? The XML tags would be provided through maybe the first row containing column headings....
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XML Processing in Python
I'm about to build a piece of a project that will need to build and post an xml document to a web service, and I'd like to do it in Python as a means to expand my skills there. Unfortunately, while I know the XML model fairly well in .Net, I'm uncertain what the pros and cons are of the XML models in Python. Anyone have experience do...
XML Editing/Viewing Software
What software is recommended for working with and editing large XML schemas? I'm looking for both Windows and Linux software (doesn't have to be cross platform, just want suggestions for both) that help with dealing with huge XML files....
Any experiences with Protocol Buffers?
I was just looking through some information about Google's protocol buffers data interchange format. Has anyone played around with the code or even created a project around it? I'm currently using XML in a Python project for structured content created by hand in a text editor, and I was wondering what the general opinion was on Protoco...
SQL 2005 For XML Explicit - Need help formatting
I have a table with a structure like the following: ------------------------------ LocationID | AccountNumber ------------------------------ long-guid-here | 12345 long-guid-here | 54321 To pass into another stored procedure, I need the XML to look like this: <root><clientID>12345</clientID><clientID>54321</clientID></root> The...
HTML version choice
When developing a new web based application which version of html should you aim for? EDIT: cool I was just attempting to get a feel from others I tend to use XHTML 1.0 Strict in my own work and Transitional when others are involved in the content creation. I marked the first XHTML 1.0 Transitional post as the 'correct answer' but bel...
Best way to get InnerXml of an XElement?
What's the best way to get the contents of the mixed "body" element in the code below? The element might contain either XHTML or text, but I just want its contents in string form. The XmlElement type has the InnerXml property which is exactly what I'm after. The code as written almost does what I want, but includes the surrounding <bo...
Authoritative source on XML-sig
We have a question with regards to XML-sig and need detail about the optional elements as well as some of the canonicalization and transform stuff. We're writing a spec for a very small XML-syntax payload that will go into the metadata of media files and it needs to by cryptographically signed. Rather than re-invent the wheel, We thought...
HTML comments break down
I have a page that is generated which inserts an HTML comment near the top of the page. Inside the comment is a *nix-style command. <!-- command --option value --option2 value2 --option3 --> This comment breaks the page completely. What is wrong with the comment to cause this to happen, and why is this the case?...
Is it "bad practice" to be sensitive to linebreaks in XML documents?
I'm generating some XML documents and when it comes to the address part I have fragments that look like this: <Address>15 Sample St Example Bay Some Country</Address> The XSLT that I have for converting this to XHTML has some funky recursive template to convert newline characters within strings to <br/> tags. This is all working fine...
Test serialization encoding
What is the best way to verify/test that a text string is serialized to a byte array with a certain encoding? In my case, I want to verify that an XML structure is serialized to a byte array with the UTF-8 encoding which is of variable character length. As an example, my current ugly procedure is to inject a character known to require t...
How can I split an XML document into thirds (or, even better, n pieces)?
I would like to use a language that I am familiar with - Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, C/C++, although examples in any language or pseudocode are more than welcome. What is the best way of splitting a large XML document into smaller sections that are still valid XML? For my purposes, I need to split them into roughly thirds or fourths, but for t...
Best binary XML format for JavaME
Can anyone recommend a good binary XML format? It's for a JavaME application, so it needs to be a) Easy to implement on the server, and b) Easy to write a low-footprint parser for on a low-end JavaME client device. And it goes without saying that it needs to be smaller than XML, and faster to parse. ...
how to use xpath in python
Is there a full implementation? How is the library used, where is its website? ...
Small modification to an XML document using StAX
I'm currently trying to read in an XML file, make some minor changes (alter the value of some attributes), and write it back out again. I have intended to use a StAX parser (javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader) to read in each event, see if it was one I wanted to change, and then pass it straight on to the StAX writer (javax.xml.stream.XML...
How to parse XML in VBA
Hi, I work in VBA, and want to parse a string eg <PointN xsi:type='typens:PointN' xmlns:xsi='<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>' xmlns:xs='<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema>'><X>24.365</X><Y>78.63</Y></PointN> and get the X & Y values into two separate integer variables. I'm a newbie ...
XPATHS and Default Namespaces
What is the story behind XPATH and support for namespaces? Did XPATH as a specification precede namespaces? If I have a document where elements have been given a default namespace: <foo xmlns="uri" /> It appears as though some of the XPATH processor libraries won't recognize //foo because of the namespace whereas others w...
How much extra overhead is generated when sending a file over a web service as a byte array?
This question and answer shows how to send a file as a byte array through an XML web service. How much overhead is generated by using this method for file transfer? I assume the data looks something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <bytes> <byte>16</byte> <byte>28</byte> <byte>127</byte> ... </bytes> ...
What is the best XML editor?
Is there a good XML / XSD editor out there? I've been using the editor in Visual Studio 2005 a little but find it lacking in features. Which editors do you use? ...
Application configuration files
OK, so I don't want to start a holy-war here, but we're in the process of trying to consolidate the way we handle our application configuration files and we're struggling to make a descision on the best approach to take. At the moment, every application we distribute is using it's own ad-hoc configuration files, whether it's property fil...