Calling XML geeks!
 

Any around?

Just been told I need to be able to parse XML and to look to see if Windows has an inbuilt parser. Now that I've written all I know about XML, anyone out there know anything to do with XML?

Open the XML file in Firefox or Opera (I think IE does it too)... it'll display it nicely for you.

Would you consider that parsed? Or do you need to do something more with the file?

Cant help you myself - like to stick to standard HTML in what I do (If I am feeling exotic I will add some CSS)

But Wikipedia may help you get a handle on things

Clicky

yeah, got to do stuff to the XML. I am sending stuff out of Lotus Notes as XML to interrogate another system and am receiving the results in XML, I need to be able to access the XML to get the info out again in a readable format to put back into Notes.

Depends on what the other system is.

All major program langs have support for XML.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp...Tools/Parsers/

Sounds like you're doing EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), which is basically 90% of what I'm paid to support. There's nothing in Windows natively to alter the contents of the XML file unfortunately.

All you can do really is export to the right dir, then import.

Sounds like a job for BizTalk!

Depending on the set up/ company/ costing/ development time etc this might be something to look at. Its a Microsoft product aimed at the B2B market that takes in XML or any format and sends it back out in XML to your specification.

But the development cost would probably be quite high, so it depends on what type of manipulation you need to do to the XML. Its possible a bit of UNIX shell scripting may even work...

hmmm.

Essentially I'm writing some XML to interrogate some system (haven't a clue what the system is) and I get the results in a blob of XML that could be 10 documents/rows or 200 documents/rows. I need to be able to get a handle on the data in the XML. There isn't something in Windows that can do that?

Sounds like a job for Perl......

Nothing in windows as such, IE has a com object that handles XML. But mabey as SoulKiss said, something in perl or php, which can be run command line may be easier. What langs are you good with?