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Re: Basic question on XML structure

Hi all,

Vern, am I relieved to read that YOU are confused!
Posted last night before leaving the office. Just arrived to find a rather long thread has developped.
Sorry to say that I'm none the wiser, even I could see that the example with the <children> element was more human readable.

I'm going to be processing this XML with XSL-FO. As I'm new to that language as well and I haven't used it for a while, maybe I should think about how I'm going to write my XSL.

But, here's a question : should I be writing the XML so that it is easily read by XSL? Like I'd do in a simple chain of RPG programs : extraction by the first into a workfile, then read the workfile that is structured so that the 2nd RPG can do the report with the cycle and no C specs. Should I have to think about the technology used to process the XML?



-----Message d'origine-----
De : web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Vern Hamberg
Envoyé : mercredi 10 mars 2010 00:35
À : Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Objet : Re: [WEB400] Basic question on XML structure

Well, he DID say it was not well-structured - did he mean it
is not well-formed? Am I mistaken there? I had no problem
understanding David's "structure", even though indentation
and white-space would have clarified it. It is obvious to me
that <name> and <child> were siblings
- human readability is nice but not required for well-formed
XML, as far as I know.

Still confused!
Vern

Neill Harper wrote:
Yeah sorry might be a little bit of confusion here.

I was questioning "You express the XML snippits wrong"

I can see now that what you were getting at is that for the
purposes
of readability (by a human) siblings should have the same
indentation level.

And you were not suggesting that the OP's original post would not
parse or was not valid XML.

Cheers

Neill

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 09 March 2010 21:13
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Basic question on XML structure

I wrote my example with idents like you walk trough the memory
structure in a hirachical data structure making who is who in a
parent/child/sibling understandable

<client>
<name>
<child>

isn't true "child and name" are siblings and "name" is not
the parent
of "child", "client" are, and therefore they should be
expressed like this:

<client>
<name>
<child>






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Yes, I saw it right away. I also saw it in the original
poster's example.
But it has nothing to do with my question.

Along with Neill I am asking what is different between
yours and the
original posters?


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Can't you see where the array is and isn't in this structure:

Lets make is visiual:

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<children>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>alex</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>peter</name>
</child>
</children>
<address>My home street</address>
</client>

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
<address>My home street</address>
<child>
<name>alex</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>peter</name>
</child>
</client>





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I don't see it. I need another clue.

Or else save us all time and just tell us.


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM, <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


You should look at my second example, it explains it all




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I can't spot the difference between your snippet and the
OP's apart

from

the
whitespace, which will of course be ignored by a
standards compliant
parser anyway.

Did I miss something else?

Neill

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Behalf Of hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 09 March 2010 18:55
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Basic question on XML structure

You express the XML snippits wrong, it should be

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<children>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
</children>
</client>

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
</client>

The first structure is weel structured, the second isn't.







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Hi all,

A little inexperienced in xml here.

Compare these 2 structures :

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<children>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
</children>
</client>

<client>
<name>bill</name>
<child>
<name>jon</name>
</child>
<child>
<name>joe</name>
</child>
</client>

Are there any advantages or disadvantages to using or not
using the
element <children>?

We do not use attributes.


Thanks.

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