User navigation system with XML file

[DKode]

Here is the XML file i am using right now, note: there is only an
"Administrator" group right now, in the end there will be 6 or 7
different groups of navigation levels

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Nav Role="Administrator">
<Button id="EmployeeManagement" label="Employee Management">
<Item id="NewEmployee" label="New Employee">
<Link>http://groups.google.com</Link>
<Target>_blank</Target>
<Shortcut>N</Shortcut>
</Item>
<Item id="EditEmployee" label="Edit Employee">
<Link>default.aspx?p=something</Link>
<Target>_self</Target>
<Shortcut>E</Shortcut>
</Item>
</Button>
<Button id="ProjectManagement" label="Project Management">
<Item id="NewProject" label="New Project">
<Link>http://www.yahoo.com</Link>
<Target>_blank</Target>
<Shortcut>N</Shortcut>
</Item>
<Item id="EditProject" label="Edit Project">
<Link>http://www.cnn.com</Link>
<Target>_self</Target>
<Shortcut>E</Shortcut>
</Item>
</Button>
</Nav>
Now, This works fine to generate my menu, what I am wondering is once
I have more <Nav> nodes in there, alot of the <Button> nodes will be
repeated. is there an easy way to set it up so I can have only one
<Button> node and have this one node stretch across all the different
User levels?

Now that I think about it, it would probably work if I just layout all
the buttons and add some sort of <UserLevel> node with the different
user levels to each <Button> node?
thank you for your help.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

DKode wrote:

Now, This works fine to generate my menu, what I am wondering is once
I have more <Nav> nodes in there, alot of the <Button> nodes will be
repeated. is there an easy way to set it up so I can have only one
<Button> node and have this one node stretch across all the different
User levels?

Easy. E.g.
<Buttons>
<Button id="EmployeeManagement" label="Employee Management">
<Item id="NewEmployee" label="New Employee">
<Link>http://groups.google.com</Link>
<Target>_blank</Target>
<Shortcut>N</Shortcut>
</Item>
<Item id="EditEmployee" label="Edit Employee">
<Link>default.aspx?p=something</Link>
<Target>_self</Target>
<Shortcut>E</Shortcut>
</Item>
</Button>
<Button id="ProjectManagement" label="Project Management">
<Item id="NewProject" label="New Project">
<Link>http://www.yahoo.com</Link>
<Target>_blank</Target>
<Shortcut>N</Shortcut>
</Item>
<Item id="EditProject" label="Edit Project">
<Link>http://www.cnn.com</Link>
<Target>_self</Target>
<Shortcut>E</Shortcut>
</Item>
</Button>
</Buttons>
<Nav Role="Administrator">
<Button ref="NewEmployee"/>
<Button ref="ProjectManagement"/>
</Nav>
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Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog