XML can sometimes be a bit confusing, so here are some tips to help you work with XML files.
First, you need to make sure your XML is really XML.
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Although Xojo does not have a built-in method to format XML text, you can use XSLT to do this for you. XSLT stands for eXtensible Stylesheet Language. This XSLT can be used to format XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="/" /> </xsl:template> </xsl:transform>
To use this with Xojo, add a module to your project (name it XMLExtensions), add a String constant to the module (call it kXSLTFormat) and copy the above XSLT into the constant.
Comments closedI recently had a customer ask about how to adjust XML structure and whether one format is better than another.
They had XML in this format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xmldata> <row username="Mary" message="Welcome!" disable="NO"/> </xmldata>
That XML was generated using code like this:
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