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RE: Re: "FLAT" XML to Hierarchical XML

2004-09-24 09:19:18
I don't see a customer id element or attribute in the sample source XML you 
provided. How will you uniquely identify each customer?
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Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Brandon Schenz <brandons(_at_)midwestsports(_dot_)com>
Sent:     Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:50:09 -0400
To:       xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject:  Re: [xsl] "FLAT" XML to Hierarchical XML

well, to be honest I am a newbie here (Like you couldn't tell that), and I'm using VB.NET (please don't make too much fun of me). I'm honestly not sure what a .NET DataSet would do with that, and regardless when I dump these in my database I need to associate a CustomerID to an Order and an OrderID to each LineItem. Your format will work fine for me as long as I'm able to add a unique orderID (I suppose that that is given to me in the original XML file though), and a unique customerID.

*Brandon Schenz*
Midwest Sports Supply
Phone: 513-956-4900
Fax: 513-956-4910
E-mail: brandons(_at_)midwestsports(_dot_)com


cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com wrote:

I don't see the hierarchy in the output you say you want. All the customers are in one element, all the orders are in a sibling element, and all the order details go into a third sibling. Is this really the format you want? When you said you wanted to make the format hierarchical, I imagined that you wanted to group all the items by order and all the orders by customer, something like this:

<customer>
 <orders>
   <order>
     <line-item></line-item>
   </order>
 </orders>
</customer>


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