Today i tried Don Dickinsons XML Lib, as its for me easier to use then the other MSXML-Examples.
The Link to Don's actual site is this:
Don Dickinsons Site (http://www.greatwebdivide.com/code_other.htm)
It still contains a lot of useful stuff.
One of these is his
XML-Parser v. 1.2 (http://www.greatwebdivide.com/files/xml_v12.zip)
Which is either buggy or not properly documented.
Here is a small example:
<Patch PatchName="q265258.exe" SQNumber="Q265258">
<DL SFN="Q265258_IE51_SP1_x86_ENU.exe" FS="351512">
<SURLS>
<SURL LGROUP="ENSTD" LURL="http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie501sp1/secpach8/5.01_SP1/WIN98/EN-US/q265258.exe"/>
</SURLS>
<AffectedProductSPs/>
</DL>
</Patch>
This will not work but bring an error. See attached picture.
Just adding a "Space" (CHR$(32)) before the "\" here:
<Patch PatchName="q265258.exe" SQNumber="Q265258">
<DL SFN="Q265258_IE51_SP1_x86_ENU.exe" FS="351512">
<SURLS>
<SURL LGROUP="ENSTD" LURL="http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie501sp1/secpach8/5.01_SP1/WIN98/EN-US/q265258.exe"/>
</SURLS>
<AffectedProductSPs />
</DL>
</Patch>
Is the only thing that needs to be changed to make it work. While the comments do not say that this space is needed.
' internal_xmlReadAttributes NOT EXPORTED
' Takes everything after the tag specifier - <TAGNAME and
' extracts the attributes of the tag. Sets iFoundEnd to
' %True if this tag was self terminating ( <TAGNAME/> ) and
' we won't find an end tag.
I'll take a look into the code and see if it can easily be fixed.
Ok, i have made this change:
(Before:)
'- The end of the tag
CASE %XML_END_TAG
GOSUB parseXML2_AddTag
(After)
'- The end of the tag
' Changed!!
CASE %XML_END_TAG
IF lastChar=%XML_SELF_TERMINATE THEN iSelfTerminate = %true
GOSUB parseXML2_AddTag
Personally I'd say there is currently no working version of this library for PB 10.
Whatever is there may need a lot of changes.
We'll see if Don will take the time and make them.
The good news is that Don is alive and available.