XML / XSL

TopXML and www.w3schools.com both contain tutorials and references for working with XML. There is also small amounts of example code in the MSDN documentation for the classes in the System.Xml namespace. led mike

Hence I should use the third option provided by you. Thanks Regards, Pavas

Mark J. Miller wrote: If you can't control the order of KidList and PeopleList then the result your solution will always be the order of the xml document. Maybe I didn't explain clearly, but that is what I wanted: maintain the xml order. I thought to add the "order" attribute for sorting, but had no idea how to use it. Your code is a great help and I will use it for sure. Thanks :)

Just add a new xsl:template element to your XSL that matches the root element. Not sure why it works this way, because I've always done it like this. But this should work for you: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl" > <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/> <!-- add this here --> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="/person/index/part1" /> </xsl:template> <!-- end addition --> <xsl:template match="/person/index/part1"> xsl:textname is </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="name"/> xsl:text.</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> My best guess is that you're not telling it what to do with the root "/", so it just includes everything after the match. Mark's blog: developMENTALmadness.blogspot.com Funniest variable name: lLongDong - spotted in legacy code, was used to determine how long a beep should be. - Dave Bacher

Ok, XPath and XML file needs to be altered since you are using namespaces. Check the below one <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <CustomerSearch xmlns:ab="http://test.com/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://server:81/testi-schemas/dev/test.xsd"> <EventReport xmlns="http://test.com/core/events/"> <Environment> <Validation>Off</Validation> </Environment> </EventReport> <Parameters CustomerId="" AdvertisingType=" " Email="mpavas@yahoo.com"/> <Results> <Customer CustomerId="22334" Name="pavas malviya" Address1="" Address2="WASHINGTONDC" Address3="DC 20431"></Customer> </Results> </CustomerSearch> If you have the above XML file, you can get Customer node using the following XPath. XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument(); document.Load(@"c:\XMLFile1.xml"); XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable); XmlElement customerSearchElement = document.DocumentElement; XmlNode customerNode = customerSearchElement.SelectSingleNode("descendant::Results/Customer", namespaceManager); if (customerNode != null) //do your code Also check some beginer tutorial on XPath and writing XML namespaces. Hope this helps All C# applications should call Application.Quit(); in the beginning to avoid any .NET problems.- Unclyclopedia How to use google | Ask smart questions

Mike A. Fowler wrote: What does the .xml file look like? Like the XML fragment you included in your original post, minus the ENDOFXML element. Mike A. Fowler wrote: Doesn't it have to have a reference to the .xsl file? Not necessarily. You can directly link an XML document to an XSL stylesheet by including the following declaration below your XML declaration: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mystylesheet.xsl"?> If the XML file is viewed in a browser like IE, the browser will perform the transformation and display the result. Mike A. Fowler wrote: Do both the .xml and the .xsl have to co-exist in the same file? No, the XML and XSL documents reside in separate files. It wouldn't make any sense for the two to be in the same file. The stylesheet would be tightly coupled to a single XML document and couldn't be applied to other documents. Paul Marfleet "No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government" Tom Sawyer - Rush

im sorry that i did not write the whole xml here it has an outer tag like ...... in this tag it writes those that i wrote first i wanted to say it writes 1 more tag under Abc i want other elements

http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_schema.asp[^] Look at the section titled: "Referencing a Schema in an XML Document" led mike

Replace & with &

abesimpson wrote: I feel like the South end of a horse facing North just framing my question Maybe you are. I mean when I want to learn about something new to me I don't try to do it from the perspective of my project needs. I go find a tutorial or book on the subject and read it for what it is, not try to find something in it that pertains to my current project. For tutorials on XML I recommend TopXML and www.w3schools.com web sites. For working with Excel I recommend the MSDN documentation. led mike

No it's not possible to do this because the file system (NTFS) laks support for locking sections of files. AFAIK, there isn't a file system on this earth that supports this. It sounds like you're treating an XML file as a small database, when in fact, you need full database support. It looks like in order to implement this requirement, you're going to have to rewrite your data access layer to use a full database, such as SQL Server Express or SQL Server Mobile. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

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Masterhame wrote: how can I do?? Well you can only do what XPath supports. Also you might find that the latest XPath standards are not fully supported by many of the XPath implementations so you need to check the specific engine you are using to determine what standard it supports. led mike