Read XML config file

[Kenny62]

I have a large config XML file that uses simple tags:
e.g
<tag1>"Data1"</tag1>
<tag2>"Data2"</tag2>
I read this file into a dataset then process the only row. This works very well - also updating the xml file is a breeze.
However some tags really need attributes so that further process may be carried out.
If i do the following:
<tag1>"Data1" cmd="Modify"</tag>

This item is ignored when the dataset reads the file. Is there a workaround. Using the example,I want to get hold of the "Data1" item and the cmd="Modify" attribute.
I don't want to use the xmlreader as resulting code is complex and messy. I'd rather stay with the Dataset because reading/writing to the xml file is easy. Any ideas.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Ken

 

[ThatRickGuy]

You could store it as a seperate table in the dataset/xml

-Rick

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[jubble]

attributes are best stored within the node tag

<tag1 cmd="Modify">Data1</tag1>

 

[Kenny62]

Hi-jubble, i've made a typo the first example should read:

<tag1 "Data1" /tag1>
<tag2 "Data2" /tag2>

The second example should read:

<tag1 "Data1" cmd="Modify" /tag>

Any ideas - with regard to the orginal question.
(Assume that i have some 200 tags in my xml file and that about 25 need attributes. I've written a friendly UI that allows managers/folks etc to modify the XML file indirectly - hopefully i don't have to make major changes to this app)

Thanks again in advance.

 

[Kenny62]

Hi -Jubble, i've made a typo, the first example should read:

<tag1 "Data1" /tag1>
<tag2 "Data2" /tag1>
The second example should read:

<tag1 "Data1" cmd="Modify" /tag1>

Any ideas - with regard to the orginal question.
(Assume that i have some 200 tags in my xml file and that about 25 need attributes. I've written a friendly UI that allows managers/folks etc to modify the XML file indirectly - hopefully i don't have to make major changes to this app)

Thanks again in advance.