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convert XML file to recordset

Asked by: yonit

Is there a way to convert a regular XML file to recordset.
Basically, I want to insert data I have in XML file to a table in the database.
it's not xml file that was saved in persist mode !!! - just a regular xml file. thanks.

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2002-11-10 at 05:53:22ID20394662
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Answers

 

by: Yury_DelendikPosted on 2002-11-10 at 06:41:44ID: 7430590

 

by: yonitPosted on 2002-11-10 at 06:47:34ID: 7430603

I have access database not SQL

 

by: Yury_DelendikPosted on 2002-11-10 at 07:02:03ID: 7430629

So second way...
or write code that uses DOM operation and  ADO Command Object
 

 

by: mathyPosted on 2002-11-10 at 14:45:38ID: 7431539

This xml file can be read immediately by excel, as an import. It makes all the names for the columns perfectly. Is that what you mean ?

<weather-report>
    <date>25 maart 2001</date>
    <time>18:00</time>
    <area>
         <city>Seattle</city>
         <state>WA</state>
         <region>West Coast</region>
         <country>VS</country>
    </area>
    <measurements>
         <skies>bewolkt</skies>
         <temperature>10 graden Celsius</temperature>
         <wind>
              <direction>zuidwesten</direction>
              <windspeed>6</windspeed>
         </wind>
         <h-index>51</h-index>
         <humidity>87</humidity>
         <visibility>10</visibility>
         <uv-index>1</uv-index>
    </measurements>
</weather-report>

 

by: yonitPosted on 2002-11-10 at 23:26:34ID: 7432540

what I basically mean is that I want to be able to take regular XML file and insert it's data to access database. Is it possible to do it with few lines or should I have to write a program for doing it ?

 

by: DivaqsPosted on 2002-11-11 at 01:12:04ID: 7432771

Hi yonit,

My favorite way is to use the XMLDOM in ASP to read the XML file and then insert the data into the database via ADO.

This has the greatest flexibility for populating multiple tables, data parsing, data scrubbing, etc.

This does require some programming work.

 

by: jyotisinhaPosted on 2002-11-12 at 02:39:22ID: 7437513

yonit,

do the fllowing -

    Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
    Dim loXML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
   
    loXML.loadXML XMLfilepath
    rs.Open loXML

this will get you the recordset with XML data. now u can put data into ms access mdb database by fetching the field values from this recordset.

Jyoti.

 

by: yonitPosted on 2002-11-12 at 02:48:43ID: 7437534

I am trying to do what you said but get an error on the rs.open command

 

by: jyotisinhaPosted on 2002-11-12 at 02:59:24ID: 7437561

sorry ... really sorry yonit .... it's not XMLfilepath instead it's xmlString

take it like this...
   
   Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
   Dim loXML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
   
   loXML.loadXML xmlString
   rs.Open loXML


xmlString is the valid XML string(may be the entire content of your valid XML document)

Jyoti.

 

by: jyotisinhaPosted on 2002-11-12 at 03:15:03ID: 7437596

sorry ... really sorry yonit .... it's not XMLfilepath instead it's xmlString

take it like this...
   
   Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
   Dim loXML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
   
   loXML.loadXML xmlString
   rs.Open loXML


xmlString is the valid XML string(may be the entire content of your valid XML document)

Jyoti.

 

by: jyotisinhaPosted on 2002-11-12 at 03:58:07ID: 7437730

sorry ... really sorry yonit .... it's not XMLfilepath instead it's xmlString

take it like this...
   
   Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset
   Dim loXML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
   
   loXML.loadXML xmlString
   rs.Open loXML


xmlString is the valid XML string(may be the entire content of your valid XML document)

Jyoti.

 

by: yonitPosted on 2002-11-12 at 04:30:50ID: 7437816

can this be done by loading xml file and not xml string ?

 

by: jyotisinhaPosted on 2002-11-12 at 04:53:50ID: 7437874

no yonit , loadXML method takes string as input.
what u can do is to read the xml file into a string and then pass the string as parameter to loadXML.reply soon if you could get it.

Jyoti.

 

by: Yury_DelendikPosted on 2002-11-12 at 13:56:56ID: 7440338

loXML.async=false
loXML.load filename

 

by: Yury_DelendikPosted on 2002-11-12 at 14:00:19ID: 7440358

yonit,
are you talking about xml data as a field value (not table row)?

 

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