Get XML structure

[Tilen]

Hi

I'm new to XML.

I have a number of different XML files, no DTDs or any other files, just XMLs.

I need to parse them and before I do that, I need to have a complete view of structure of elemenst/objects and sub-elements/sub-objects...

So I need a list of all elements and their attributes and which subelements they have and their attributes and their subelements and so on.

The reason for this is, so I can prepare Delphi record types for each object, to be able to read XML into them and then process the data.

Anyone can point to a tool that can do this or any other way?

Thank you

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[k5tm]

Most XML tools will do something like this. Stylus Studio and Altova XMLSpy are two such tools, available for free trial download from their publishers.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tsuji]

If the source file is yours and stored in your file system that you have read-write rights, then you can add a processing instruction to the xml source file under the prolog.
[tt] <?xml-stylesheet href="tree-view.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>[/tt]
and download the tree-view.xsl and tree-view.css (originally written by Mike J. Brown and Jeni Tennison) here.

http://skew.org/xml/stylesheets/treeview/html/

This is an approach not tie to any ide. Everybody can write their own.

 

[Tilen]

Hi

thanx for the suggestions, k5tm. I tried Stylus Studio and Altova XMLSpy but I couldn't get the tree to be displayed in a 'distinct and structural way'.

I started writing my own code for one of the XML parsers, and it seems quite easy to do this. Well, a couple of days will go by, but that's not too bad.

I'll have a look at your suggestion, tsuji.

Thank you

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