Well at least you made it back! It's nice to know someone gets vacation time!:)

As I desperately waited for your response, I did some reading. Evan Delay was talking about this stuff two years ago, so I am behinf the times!

What I learned is the XMLs I am usining are Hieracrhal rather rather than tablular. So I am working on a "crawler". I have the crawler working pretty well in the section of the manifest (XML) where a particular node does not have a root sibling. I am trying to get a "(leaf) crawler" working in sections of the XML where the root parent node does have siblings. ANy advice or pointers appreciated.

However, I did find a free tool ( http://www.vbxml.com/xpathvisualizer/ ) that loads an XML and then, based the Xpath query, will highlite those nodes participating in the query results.

Are there reasons certain types of XMLs will not load to XMLAdapter? I guess I am wondering if XMLAdapter/XMLToCursor are fully W3C.

Thanks


>Terry
>Sorry , i have been away for a veeeeeeeery long time, due to huge projects that came in all together ( as always ). To answer the question you're going to ask: Yes, it's all exclusively plain-vanilla VFP, with native data and the whole panoplie...
>About your question concerning moving Java DOM, i don't know ditch...don't think of me as a XML guru or something, it's just that i had to learn it in order to maintain the zillion Web Services i developed with VFP the last 2 years :-)
>
>Jaime
>
>>Jamie,
>>Thanks for helping Carmel an I with this post.
>>
>>I am moving some Java DOM services to M$'s IXMLDOM. Could you offer any advice on that transition?
>>
>>
>>>Carmel
>>>If you use VFP8, just check out the XMLAdapter Class.
>>>If you are using previous versions, you should manually scan your xml using XMLDom and enter the data into your tables.
>>>Scannig your data manually would look something like the following:

>>>ox = CreateObject("MSXml.DOMDocument")
>>>ox.Load( YourXmlSource ) && or ox.LoadXML( YourXMLString )
>>>myXmlString = ox.DocumentElement
>>>** now retrieve some fields **
>>>myRevNode = myXmlString.SelectSingleNode( "authentication/revision" )
>>>myRevision = myRevNode.Text
>>>myResNode = myXmlString.SelectSingleNode( "authentication/reseller_shortcut")
>>>MyReseller = myResNode.Text
>>>
>>>** loop through the customer nodes
>>>myCustomers = myXmlString.SelectNodes( "customers" )
>>>for each oCostumer in myCustomers
>>>   tmpName = oCostumer.SelectSingleNode("customer/name")
>>>   ? tmpName.Text
>>>endfor
>>>** it's a pain, i know, but you can control everything

>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Jaime
>>>