XML Literals Tips/Tricks

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

BillS — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:24:11 GMT

Beth,

Cool tips - I had just linked to your earlier post and that fast you've got a second post on the same topic.

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Beth Massi — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:30:24 GMT

Glad you like them!

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re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Seid Krvavac — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:58:51 GMT

Wow!

Thank you for that tip Beth, it's a really nice little feature in 9.0, I can't wait to the final release to use it in production!

And I also want to say at this point that you are doing a great job! Keep up the good work :-)

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Josh Stodola — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:27:09 GMT

Thanks I am quite interested in these types of posts. Hope your busy weekend went well.

Got a question, so what returns from the ToString method exactly? Are those colons included? Does it actually return an object with those properties rather than a string? I just can't picture what gets returned there.

Thanks! Hope you can continue to feed us very helpful examples!

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Beth Massi — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:34:25 GMT

Hi Josh,

Yes the formatted string is returned. i.e.:

ID : 1

Name : Massi, Beth

Address : 123 Main Street

: Seattle, WA - 98123

I'm eating a lot of XML in VB lately so look for some more tips soon. ;-)

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Beth Massi — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:53:24 GMT

Hey Josh, I just noticed that the previous comment messed up the formatting of the string when I pasted it in :-/. It would be formatted evenly of course. ;-)

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re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Andrew — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:43:36 GMT

How do you include special characters? i want to use this for a SQL Query which has a WHERE Clause which checks to see if a value is <= 10.... the less than symbol screws up the xml

re: XML Literals Tips/Tricks

Andrew — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:51:05 GMT

Found a good article about the special character problem:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/01/31/qanda.html

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sian — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:57:09 GMT

Hi Beth can you help me with this:

this is my xml file

<paper_cavg Date="13/06/2008">

</paper_cavg>

Then this is my xml query in VB but it doesn't work

Dim MyQuotes = XDocument.Load("C:\WebSite1\App_Data\CapeQuotes.xml")

Dim Quote2 = From quote In MyQuotes...<paper_cavg> _

Where quote.<paper_cavg>.@Date = "13/06/2008" _

Select quote Where quote.<paper_cavg>.<Month>.@Name = "Jul2008"

aryOptions(i).NormUl = Quote2.ToString

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sian — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:59:18 GMT

Of course the xml file has a closing literal as well

</CapeQuotes>