Hi All, New to asp.net here. Been combing google since monday trying to
find the right solution. Most of the solutions are good and reflect the
same examples in the .net books I have but xml is sketchy to me and
this isn't you typical real world project.
Here's the scenario. I query an api via a URL and it responds with xml
data which I need to use to prepoulate the fields of a web form. I
haven't been able to get my head around this one. As you can see from
the XML example below, all of the elements I am after (name, address,
phone etc) have the same element name "attr". I have no control over
the xml document so I can't arrange the tags in a more useful manner.
If you look at the xml, I need to assign each value to a corresponding
textfield on a web form. So the value of attr name="mail" which is
jdoe@msn.com must be assign to txtMail.text. So far I have been able to
return all of the values but I have not been successful in linking them
to that childnode (if thats correct) of name, mail, address etc.
Also should mention I can't really use an array solution like attr[1],
attr[2] which will work, but as I said I have no control over the xml
doc and if the positions change my app is hosed.
My deadline is tomorrow so thank you sincerely for any and ALL
suggestions.
BK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE dsml (View Source for full doctype...)>
- <dnt complete="true">
- <directory-entries>
- <entry id="A0236721002">
- <attr name="name">
<value>John Doe</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="mail">
<value>jdoe@msn.com</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="address">
<value>123 Some Street</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="city">
<value>New York</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="state">
<value>NY</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="zip">
<value>10019</value>
</attr>
- <attr name="phone">
<value>(212)555-1212</value>
</attr>
</entry>
</directory-entries>
</dnt>
