Xml 查漏补缺笔记

 

Special symbol:

<FullName>Sylvie <Bellie> Aronson</FullName> 

The left/right angle brackets should be replaced with </> in xml node:

<FullName>Sylvie &lt;Bellie&gt; Aronson</FullName>

 

XML & CSS:

Xml:

<? xml version = "1.0"?>

<? xml:stylesheet href="StyleSheet1.css" type="text/css" ?>

< Videos >

            < Video >

                        < Title > The Distinguished Gentleman</Title>

                        < Director > Jonathan Lynn</Director>

            </ Video >

</ Videos >

Css:

Using the tag name (xml) for Element name (css)

Title

{

            color: purple;

            font-style: italic;

            background-color: yellow;

}

Director

{

            background-color: #ff6666;

}

 

Tag & Markup

            A Markup means <tag>

Root Node

            An xml file must have one and only one root node; it could be accessed by the following 2 approaches:

1)     XmlDocument.DocumentElement

2)     XmlDocument.ChildNodes[0]

 

XmlNode & XmlElement

            Node is more general than Element. Anything in an XML document is a node (e.g. attributes, comments, doctype, etc), but only tags are elements.

            In .net, XmlElement and XmlAttribute are derived from XmlNode

 

Adding a new Element

1)     Approach 1: using TextNode

NewElement = XmlDocument.CreateElement(“Tag”);

NewText = XmlDocument.CreateTextNode(“content”);

NewElement.AppendChild(NewText);

ParentNode.AppendChild(NewElement);

 

2)     Approach 2: using InnerText

NewElement = XmlDocument.CreateElement(“Tag”);

NewElement.InnerText = “content”;

ParentNode.AppendChild(NewElement);

 

3)     Approach 3: using InnerXml for nested nodes

NewElement = XmlDocument.CreateElement(“Tag”);

NewElement.InnerXml = “"<Title>Other People's Money</Title><Director>Alan Brunstein</Director><Length>114 Minutes</Length>";

ParentNode.AppendChild(NewElement);

 

Adding a new Attribute

1)     XmlNode.SetAttribute(“attributeName”, “attributeValue”);

 

2)     Document.CreateAttribute(), Attribute.SetValue, XmlNode.SetAttributeNode();

 

Attribute.OwnerElement

            This property will return the XmlElement which owns this Attribute.

            For XmlAttribute.ParentNode, it always returns null;

 

XmlComment <!--comments-->

            It is also derived from XmlNode, and could be added by 2 steps:

            XmlDocument.CreateComment(“comments”);

            XmlElement.AppendChild(XmlComment);

 

Its text could be retrieved by InnerText or Value

 

CDATA <![CDATA[any text]]>

Any text (include xml tags) inside the CDATA section will be considered to be regular text, the parser will not try to parse text inside the section. XmlCDataSection is also derived from XmlNode.

           

XmlDocument.CreateCDataSection(“some text<aa></bb”);

            XmlElement.AppendChild(XmlCDataSection);

 

Its text could be retrieved by InnerText or Value

 

XmlNode.InnerText vs XmlNode.Value

InnerText goes through the descendant XmlText node(s) of an XmlNode, and concatenates their value(s) together.

Value just get the text of this node