XML / XSL

As Perspx said. You may be able to do it with the translate function, I haven't tried it. Otherwise, maybe you could perhaps insert pre or div tags around the text.

With an XmlDocument.

Ok I found one solution: 1) Don't return the tag at all if element is empty. LOL the obvious right. It's very silly for a parser not to understand self closing tags, but it's our client's app that is going to read our generated XML. While this works, I'm still very interested on other solutions as well. Thanks all in advance.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <nodes>   <node id="001">information</node> </nodes> Did you have "Auto-encode HTML when pasting?" checked? Also, your question seems to be more of a .NET question than a XML question. "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

I got it var s = XDocument.Load("rect.xml"); var q = from x in s.Descendants() select new { x }; XNamespace ns = "http://tempuri.org/svg11-flat-20030114"; foreach (var itm in q) { if (itm.x.Name == ns + "rect") { rect re = (rect)itm.x; Console.WriteLine(itm.x.Name.ToString()); } if (itm.x.Name == ns + "desc") { rect re = (rect)itm.x; Console.WriteLine(itm.x.Name.ToString()); } }

Ron, I guess you posted this here because the file happens to be XML. I can assure you that there is nothing specific to XML technology that would account for this. Moving on. myNameIsRon wrote: revert back to the original install file/data. - Open XML file in Notepad, the data shown is the original install data. You provided no information that would enlighten us about this "install", so once again, that doesn't tell us anything useful. You also provided no information about how this "original" file has been modified so listing all the ways you open it and see the original data without providing any clue about how it is supposedly modified, wait for it, doesn't tell me anything useful. Based on what you posted I can not eliminate the users as the problem in every one of your scenarios. myNameIsRon wrote: - Open XML file in Notepad, the data shown is the original install data. User opened the wrong file. myNameIsRon wrote: E-mail XML file, the data is reverted to original install data. User emailed the wrong file. myNameIsRon wrote: Open same XML file in Internet Explorer, the file shows up-to-date data. Same as what? That statement doesn't even have enough information to understand. If you meant the same XML file they emailed in the previous step, then the first point is still valid, they sent the wrong file. led mike

Hi all, I have finally worked out how to achieve what I need. For those interested the syntax to get the value of an attribute by paramater is: @*[name() = $sortBy] where $sortBy is the name of the paramater. Hope this is of use to someone! Lea Hayes

lhayes00 wrote: Is this the most efficient way of doing this? Might be given the nature of the XML you appear to be working with. A more standard approach might be to have specific information in the XML rather than using Position() that you can query and possible sort against. That solution might be more standard and could perform better as well. led mike

Thanks I now found a reference to it on this blog[^] (another blog using a horrible font X| what's up with that? ) CodeTortoise wrote: since I need to spit out the '#include file.cpp' to a .cpp, as well as write a new .vcProj I don't believe it will do that but you could just have two XSLT's, one for each output file and run them both. The answer to all the rest of your can XSLT do this and that is yes. You can create just about any Text output using XSLT. That said, since UB is a development activity rather than a production build activity writing your C# utility to do this seems a perfectly fine choice. led mike

Would it not be easier to use some form of database? Regards, --Perspx "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia