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Better XML viewing in Firefox

When you view a simple XML document in Firefox, it goes to the standard XML display mode, where you can collapse subtrees, etc. But it's pretty limited in functionality; there's nothing convenient like "expand all" and "collapse all" buttons, there's that annoying "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated w...

How can I make lxml's parser preserve whitespace outside of the root element?

I am using lxml to manipulate some existing XML documents, and I want to introduce as little diff noise as possible. Unfortunately by default lxml.etree.XMLParser doesn't preserve whitespace before or after the root element of a document: >>> xml = '\n <etaoin>shrdlu</etaoin>\n' >>> lxml.etree.tostring(lxml.etree.fromstring(xml)) '<e...

what's wrong with my xml formatting?

can someone please tell me why this xml formatting is incorrect and why my vb.net application does not want to read it? http://sites.google.com/site/shadchanproject/Home/lots1.xml is it OK to have an apostrophe between the tags? my vb debugger is saying: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 33, position 10. (this is where i p...

simplexml failed to parse xml like this?

Is there a stronger reference? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:nutch="http://www.nutch.org/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns :opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Nutch: "php Developers" notdirectory:1 </title> <description>Nutch search results for query: "...

prevent x:out from stripping elements within selected node

Given the following XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <doc> <head> <title>Introduction</title> <section>section</section> <channel>testing/test</channel> </head> <body> <h1>Heading</h1> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p> <p>Donec sed enim.</p> </bod...

when running project, not all form_load code runs

this code was just working! but for some reason it stopped to work now. when i run this project the following code is supposed to execute but it does not! please help. Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim xmldoc As New System.Xml.XmlDocument() 'Load from file...

Is it a good practice to embed mappings for errorcodes inside JSON ?

Have a glance at this snippet of JSON. Motivation: The JSON is generated by a REST service & later on will be converted to XML. Simple Question: I am currently embedding the map for the error codes inside the JSON snippet, with the intention of helping the transformation to XML. The XML format does not use numeric codes. Should I plac...

Performance considerations of JSON vs. XML

I am using a webservice which provides a large result set either in XML or JSON format. Which format will be faster or better (perfomance based)? Also which language should I use to parse the XML/JSON? Should I use PHP or JavaScript? ...

Concatenating rows from different tables into one field

Hi! In a project using a MSSQL 2005 Database we are required to log all data manipulating actions in a logging table. One field in that table is supposed to contain the row before it was changed. We have a lot of tables so I was trying to write a stored procedure that would gather up all the fields in one row of a table that was given t...

USING webservice in PHP which returns XML

I am using a webservice to get some results in XMl form... here is the part of the code public function getXML() { $url=$this->constructURL(); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $xml = curl_exec($ch); if ($e...

Why is this java code not parsing my Xml correctly?

I've written class to parse some xml into an object and it's not working correctly, when I try and get the value of a node I get a null rather than the contents of the node. Here is a simplified version of my class that just does the xml parsing of a single node: import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayLi...

What is the benefit of using attribute groups over attributes in defining an XSD?

What is the benefit of using attribute groups over attributes in defining an XSD Schema? Ok... so I can declare them elsewhere and reference them... What else? ...

How to save c++ object into a xml file and restore back?

How to save c++ object into a xml file and restore back? ...

Jquery and Xpath XML parsing

I want to parse an XML using jquery. Is it possible to parse using XPath. is there any functions for that in jquery?? ...

order of parsed elements is lost in XMLBeans

I have a XML structure somewhat like this: <root> <a/> <b/> <b/> <a/> <a/> </root> My XSD looks like this: <xs:element name="root"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xs:element ref="a"/> <xs:element ref="b"/> </xs:c...

xsd-based code generator to build xml?

I have a schema (xsd), and I want to create xml files that conform to it. I've found code generators that generate classes which can be loaded from an xml file (CodeSynthesis). But I'm looking to go the other direction. I want to generate code that will let me build an object which can easily be written out as an xml file. In C++. I...

SQL Server - Adding an XML Index to a calculated column on a View

I have a table which stores comma separated values in an NVARCHAR(MAX). I have created a view, which uses string manipulation to convert these comma separated values into an xml list. I can then use this Xml column access each item. The queries on this column will benefit greatly if I could index it. However, on trying to create a Prim...

Extending XSD files

I have an XSD file with an enumerated type. I'd like to create an "extended" XSD file, which adds some additional enumerations, but otherwise behaves just like the main XSD. For example, the main XSD file contains this: <xsd:simpleType name="color"> <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"> <xsd:enumeration value="red"></xsd:enumera...

Efficiently "drilling down" into XML tree with xlinq?

I'm writing a program to parse some third-party XML files. The structure is something like... <CharacterSheet> ... <StatBlock> ... <Stat> ... <alias /> ... </Stat> ... </StatBlock> ... </CharacterSheet> I'm using this in to get some practice with linq, and I'm fining I have to write some really ugly chained querie...

How do I add a space in an XML schema element?

How do I add a space in an XML schema element? I'd like to have "Last Name" without using an underscore. Thanks. <xs:element name="Last Name" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0" /> ...