XML file & objects

[David A. Osborn]

Is there a way to take an xml file that I have created that lays out the
formating for custom objects with their properties and then pull them into
vb.net to use? For example the xml would look like:

<myobjects>
<object>
<name>object1</name>
<property>color</property>
<property>height</property>
<property>width</property>
</object>
<object>
<name>object2</name>
<property>weight</property>
<property>color</property>
</object>
</myobjects>
Then I would like to be able to work with object1 and object2 just like they
a standard vb.net object where I could do object1.color = 'blue' . Is this
possible?
Thanks!

[Martin Honnen]

David A. Osborn wrote:

Is there a way to take an xml file that I have created that lays out the
formating for custom objects with their properties and then pull them into
vb.net to use? For example the xml would look like:

<myobjects>
<object>
<name>object1</name>
<property>color</property>
<property>height</property>
<property>width</property>
</object>
<object>
<name>object2</name>
<property>weight</property>
<property>color</property>
</object>
</myobjects>
Then I would like to be able to work with object1 and object2 just like they
a standard vb.net object where I could do object1.color = 'blue' . Is this
possible?

..NET has support with the xsd.exe tool to serialize an object to XML,
based on a W3C XML schemas. You can derive .NET classes from XSD schemas.
See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpconXMLSchemaDefinitionToolXsdexe.asp>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[David A. Osborn]

Would this require me to regenerate the schema everytime I add a new object?
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David A. Osborn wrote:

Is there a way to take an xml file that I have created that lays out the
formating for custom objects with their properties and then pull them
into vb.net to use? For example the xml would look like:

<myobjects>
<object>
<name>object1</name>
<property>color</property>
<property>height</property>
<property>width</property>
</object>
<object>
<name>object2</name>
<property>weight</property>
<property>color</property>
</object>
</myobjects>
Then I would like to be able to work with object1 and object2 just like
they a standard vb.net object where I could do object1.color = 'blue' .
Is this possible?

.NET has support with the xsd.exe tool to serialize an object to XML,
based on a W3C XML schemas. You can derive .NET classes from XSD schemas.
See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpconXMLSchemaDefinitionToolXsdexe.asp>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/