XML Document

[Jim Wagner]

Greetings NUG -

Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file.

Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line.

Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings?

Thanks
Jim

James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
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[vaughnsc .]

Use Transform to 'pretty print' it with xslt. I have a text constant with
the snippet of xslt I've used for years, but I don't have it on the phone.
Googling 'xml pretty print' should point the way though.

Vaughn

Post by Jim Wagner
Greetings NUG -
Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to
read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is
happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file.
Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion
from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful
with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I
see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per
element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in
TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long
line.
Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot
find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful
line endings?
Thanks
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>
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[Jim Wagner]

Thanks

Jim

James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by vaughnsc .
Use Transform to 'pretty print' it with xslt. I have a text constant with
the snippet of xslt I've used for years, but I don't have it on the phone.
Googling 'xml pretty print' should point the way though.
Vaughn

Post by Jim Wagner
Greetings NUG -
Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to
read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is
happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file.
Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion
from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful
with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I
see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per
element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in
TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long
line.
Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot
find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful
line endings?
Thanks
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>
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[emile.a.schwarz]

Hi James,

 

get an eye there:

 

https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0

 

and follow the path.

 

A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.

 

Enjoy,

 

Emile

 

 

 

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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[Jim Wagner]

Thanks, Emile -

For now, one of the on-lilne “pretty print” utilities is all I need. But, that is a very useful thread.

Jim

James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by emile.a.schwarz
Hi James,
https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0
and follow the path.
A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.
Enjoy,
Emile

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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[V S Cordero]

Hi again, Jim

<?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>

I usually place this in a constant somewhere e.g. ‘kPrettyPrintXSL' and then:

dim pretty as string=myXmlDoc.Transform(kPrettyPrintXSL)

The ‘indent’ attribute forces line breaks in the result. I can then view the variable ‘pretty’ in the debugger or write it to disk with a textOutputStream.

Cheers,

Vaughn

Thanks, Emile -
For now, one of the on-lilne “pretty print” utilities is all I need. But, that is a very useful thread.
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by emile.a.schwarz
Hi James,
https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0
and follow the path.
A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.
Enjoy,
Emile

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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[Jim Wagner]

Thanks

Am I correct that the constant is a single string?

Jim

James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by V S Cordero
Hi again, Jim

<?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>

dim pretty as string=myXmlDoc.Transform(kPrettyPrintXSL)
The ‘indent’ attribute forces line breaks in the result. I can then view the variable ‘pretty’ in the debugger or write it to disk with a textOutputStream.
Cheers,
Vaughn

Thanks, Emile -
For now, one of the on-lilne “pretty print” utilities is all I need. But, that is a very useful thread.
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by emile.a.schwarz
Hi James,
https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0
and follow the path.
A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.
Enjoy,
Emile

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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[Support]

Yeah, its XML itself, so it works with/out breaks. A single string.

Cheers,

Vaughn

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Thanks
Am I correct that the constant is a single string?
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by V S Cordero
Hi again, Jim

<?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>

dim pretty as string=myXmlDoc.Transform(kPrettyPrintXSL)
The ‘indent’ attribute forces line breaks in the result. I can then view the variable ‘pretty’ in the debugger or write it to disk with a textOutputStream.
Cheers,
Vaughn

Thanks, Emile -
For now, one of the on-lilne “pretty print” utilities is all I need. But, that is a very useful thread.
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by emile.a.schwarz
Hi James,
https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0
and follow the path.
A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.
Enjoy,
Emile

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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[Jim Wagner]

Thanks

Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by Support
Yeah, its XML itself, so it works with/out breaks. A single string.
Cheers,
Vaughn

Post by Jim Wagner
Thanks
Am I correct that the constant is a single string?
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by V S Cordero
Hi again, Jim

<?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>

dim pretty as string=myXmlDoc.Transform(kPrettyPrintXSL)
The ‘indent’ attribute forces line breaks in the result. I can then view the variable ‘pretty’ in the debugger or write it to disk with a textOutputStream.
Cheers,
Vaughn

Thanks, Emile -
For now, one of the on-lilne “pretty print” utilities is all I need. But, that is a very useful thread.
Jim
James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>

Post by emile.a.schwarz
Hi James,
https://forum.xojo.com/17131-xml-tostring-with-tab-and-return/0
and follow the path.
A .ToString can be sent to TextArea / saved to disk.
Enjoy,
Emile

Message du 08/12/16 19:59
De : "Jim Wagner"
A : "Nug"
Objet : XML Document
Greetings NUG - Trying to (re)learn how to create and parse XML documents and how to read/write to a file. One thing, that I don’t quite understand, is happening. It has to do with end-of-line in the saved file. Now, I am fairly sure that this makes little difference in the conversion from a string into an XmlDocument, but the visual validation is painful with a single string, no line ending, no indenting. All of the examples I see, including the LR’s entry for XmlDocument, shows a single line per element, and nicely indented. Yet, when I view the generated xml file (in TextWrangler, which is set up to view xml files), its just a single, long line. Is there something I can do, presumably in xml.ToString (btw, I cannot find any documentation on an xml method named “ToString”!) to add useful line endings? Thanks Jim James Wagner Oregon Research Electronics http://www.orelectronics.net _______________________________________________ Xojo forum: https://forum.xojo.com/

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