I think you have to develop the logic yourself. XML is not a strict standard,
so there is no unique method for conversion, at least to my knowledge.
Bob
On Jul 17, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hi it's a logical/design question,
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> I want to read a given XML format into a field based ("db like") LC
> application. My question is how you create the assignment between XML-Tags
> and LC fields.
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> Most of the XML-Tags are unique, like <productname>, or the parent nodes
> make them unique. Here I can easily create a relation table between the Tags
> and the fields. On the other hand there are some common Tags, which appear
> multiple times, like <textCode> together with <text>. Here the content of
> the first tag <textcode> (01,02,03) defines the db field for <textcode> and
> the following <text>. E.G. XML <text> content of <textcode> 01 is the "Main
> description", 02 is "Short description". For the assignment of these tags I
> could create a table for the relation between the content and the fields.
> The two completely opposite approaches in one processing needs a lot of hard
> coding where what to do to find the right db field.
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> Is this the way to process these kind of XML data or am I on the wrong lane
> and I don't see the obvious?
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> Any insights of XML pros appreciated
>
> Tiemo
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