Viewing XML Data

[Jonathan Taylor]

I have a large XML file that contains many complex objects.

The objects contain a fairly sizeable amount of information and I'm only
interested in displaying the name of each item. I don't want to read the
whole document into memory, I merely want to go through the document and
populate a list view which will list all items in the xml file.

When i select an item in the list view I then want to view it. I do this by
pressing a button that will display the form for viewing the item. I could
pass the new form an identifier which will tell it the item to display.

Can anyone suggest the best way to do this ?

Many thanks.

[clintonG]

Re: Viewing XML Data

Yes, fragments are supported as I understand. Not reading the whole tree
into memory is I believe dependent on which parser is being used.

Google: "system.xml"+"f ragment"
Google: "xml parser comparison"

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>I have a large XML file that contains many complex objects.
>
> The objects contain a fairly sizeable amount of information and I'm only
> interested in displaying the name of each item. I don't want to read the
> whole document into memory, I merely want to go through the document and
> populate a list view which will list all items in the xml file.
>
> When i select an item in the list view I then want to view it. I do this
> by pressing a button that will display the form for viewing the item. I
> could pass the new form an identifier which will tell it the item to
> display.
>
> Can anyone suggest the best way to do this ?
>
> Many thanks.
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