Starting XML question....

[ChrisC456]

Hi,

I'm very new to XML and I'm used to OOP, so i've got a question related to these two...

Say I was writing an XML document, and I have information on Authors and Articles:

<author>
<name>Alex Jones</name>
etc
</author>

<article>
<title>XML</title>
<category>Computers</category>
</article>

If an author can write many articles, and an article is only written by one author, would I need to put something inside <article></article> in order to link it to the right author?
Or is this done somewhere else?

Thanks.

 

[JontyMC]

XML is not a programming language, it is simply a structured data store. Both the structure and the data are entirely up to you (unless you're working from a schema).

It would be logical for the articles to appear under the author node, eg:

<author>
  <name>Alex Jones</name>
  <article>
    <title>XML</title>
    <category>Computers</category>
  </article>
  <article>
    <title>C#</title>
    <category>Computers</category>
  </article>
</author>

You'd probably want a list of authors:

<authors>
  <author>
  ....
  </author>
  <author>
  ....
  </author>
  ....
</authors>

Jon

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