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Reading XML into an object for searching purposes
I would like to parse an XML file like:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<authors>
<author firstname="William" lastname="Shakespeare">
<book>"The Tempest"</book>
<book>"Romeo and Juliet"</book>
<book>"Macbeth"</book>
<book>"The Taming of the Shrew"</book>
</author>
<author firstname="Steven" lastname="King">
<book>"Carrie"</book>
<book>"Cujo"</book>
<book>"Insomnia"</book>
</author>
<author firstname="Craig" lastname="Clevenger">
<book>"Dermaphoria"</book>
<book>"The Contortionists Handbook"</book>
</author>
</authors>
into an object(array? struct? class? linked list?) and be able to use it in this way:
if user types "William" and "Shakespeare" into two text boxes then write to console books that author wrote
if no exact match then do nothing, prompt again.
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<authors>
<author firstname="William" lastname="Shakespeare">
<book>"The Tempest"</book>
<book>"Romeo and Juliet"</book>
<book>"Macbeth"</book>
<book>"The Taming of the Shrew"</book>
</author>
<author firstname="Steven" lastname="King">
<book>"Carrie"</book>
<book>"Cujo"</book>
<book>"Insomnia"</book>
</author>
<author firstname="Craig" lastname="Clevenger">
<book>"Dermaphoria"</book>
<book>"The Contortionists Handbook"</book>
</author>
</authors>
into an object(array? struct? class? linked list?) and be able to use it in this way:
if user types "William" and "Shakespeare" into two text boxes then write to console books that author wrote
if no exact match then do nothing, prompt again.
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I am looking to put them into some sort of data structue so that I can use it without parsing through the XML everytime, parsing through is something I understand, but putting it into some sort of data structure is what I need help with
ASKER
Sorry carl didn't read your solution correctly. Quick question about your solution:
Dim node As XmlNode = _doc.SelectSingleNode("//a
how would this line look if you were not lowercasing all the text. this appears to do what I want it to, but I can assume the text will be exact.
Dim node As XmlNode = _doc.SelectSingleNode("//a
how would this line look if you were not lowercasing all the text. this appears to do what I want it to, but I can assume the text will be exact.
You just need to remove the translate function call, so it becomes:
Dim node As XmlNode = _doc.SelectSingleNode("//a
Dim node As XmlNode = _doc.SelectSingleNode("//a
ASKER
Thanks Carl!
Imports MSXML2.DOMDocument40Class
Private Sub ReadXML()
Dim XML As New MSXML2.DOMDocument40
XML.validateOnParse = False
XML.load("yourxmlfile")
Dim xAuthors As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
xAuthors = XML.selectSingleNode("//Au
If Not xAuthors Is Nothing Then
Dim xbn, xin, xan, xat As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
For Each xbn In xAuthors.childNodes
s = CStr(xbn.attributes.getNam