xml-dev - Data Structures and XML

["Laura Walker" <laura.walker@oasis-open.org>]

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From: <johnc@innovatec.com.mx>
To: <owner-xml-dev@xml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Data Structures and XML


> Hi,
>
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> We have transferred purchase order document information into XML format
> where we show the document to a browser using  XSLT .  When the user
> downloads the file to his browser, he is free to look at it and print the
> document out.
>
> But in order to finish the cycle, the browser users needs to convert the
> files  into  text  files or data tables to integrate them with their
> internal processes.
>
> It surprises me that I have not seen anyone else discussing  this
> operation, working on B to B   We have read where people have just said,
> convert it into a text file using commas. but we would like to see a small
> sample of actual code. as an  example of how to do it.   Can anyone offer
> help.
>
> John Connolly
>
> Innovatec
> Mexico City
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>
>
>
> I'm sure something analogous to this question has been asked before, but
> the
> sheer mass of XML-dev posts in the archive and the lack of an obvious way
> to
> search them on www.xml.org/archives/xml-dev (the link on
> www.xml.org/archives
> to xml-dev is broken, BTW) necessitates me to ask a repeated question.
> *sigh*
>
> My situation is this: I have a data structure in Java that contains all
> the
> necessary info for creating a valid XML document (i.e. serialize the
> data-structure into XML) that conforms to an existing XML Schema.  It's
> even
> structured in a node/edge fashion, so the conversion would be easy.  I
> want to
> know what the best way to create that XML document programmatically is,
> technology-wise (SOAP, DOM, SAX, etc ?).
>
> At worst, I can simply write serialize/deserialize methods for my data
> structure that grabs the right information from the appropriate places and
> writes the XML element/attribute/values down recursively in a tree, but I
> really think (hope?) that there are established mechanisms that do this
> with a
> little bit of set-up/conversion frobbing.  Perhaps frobbing a DOM2
> document,
> adding appropriate nodes and values, and asking the DOM document to
> serialize
> itself could produce the desired XML document (just guessing here).
>
> This also begs at the question of what means is best at creating XML
> documents
> programmatically.  Even better if the same mechanism can read in XML and
> recreate the programmatic data structures.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
> /David
>
>
>
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